For mysterious (obvious) reasons that I can’t formally talk about yet, I’ve been reading (devouring) a lot of Rachel Held Evans’s writing, as of late. What I’d actually like to do is get her entire …
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Blessed Are
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Disturb us, oh Lord
I posted this Sir Francis Drake poem / prayer on my blog 14 YEARS AGO, WHAT?! LITERALLY WHAT. I found it etched on the side of a Baptist church somewhere in Brooklyn, and every now …
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we don’t know
I can’t stop thinking about how the poor people in the Surfside building were at least probably asleep when its walls shook them down further into their dreams. And this morning, while literally completing work …
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Rolling into the Easter weekend like
I don’t claim to know St. Francis of Assisi, who wrote this age old Anglican prayer, but a friend recently sent this to me, and I think it’s a good meditation for the weekend. This …
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a church
Happy National Stacey Abrams dayyyyyy! This woman mobilized an unprecedented amount of voters and should have highways and parks and children and cocktails named after her. My favorite thing about her narrative is that she …
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My Brand
Someone is definitely telling young and early career writers that they need to have ‘a brand’ because I get asked a lot, Bekah, what’s yours? And at first I feel like apologizing to them on …
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SHE CHILLIN’
I’m just going to continue to find and share here any positive news that I can find right now, as shouting into the void of anxiety and negativity is not my brand, OR AT LEAST …
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Mercy; Comfort
Like an apocalypse mouse hunting for tiny pieces of old ‘toast’ even though ‘toast’ is not a thing anymore but still I want this memory of ‘toast’, I wake up each morning searching corners of …
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the Avocado within
I don’t even know how to feel about this virus, anymore. Yes, I am a pregnant person during a pandemic, but I truly wasn’t panicking, as typically I prefer to panic about things like plane …
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not mantra
My mantra has pretty much always been I do not have a mantra, I am not a person who does mantras, but recently, a mantra has developed in my head on its own, and so, …