
too sweet
The house is quiet except for the fly trapped in the window, most likely slipped in when I opened the door for the electrician who needs to replace the dated breaker box.
notes on motherhood after ivf and infertility
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The house is quiet except for the fly trapped in the window, most likely slipped in when I opened the door for the electrician who needs to replace the dated breaker box.

You can do anything for 30 days is what I keep telling myself as I prepare for a sprint to finish the first draft of my memoir.

Remember when you thought postpartum might pass you by like a kite?

My garden keeps dying. And yet I buy more plants. Have you ever killed lavender? Someone on Reddit says you can abuse it; it likes to be neglected.

It’s four in the morning and you’re awake because we are having a heat wave in Los Angeles (90s all week), and so you’re sleeping in our room where I’ve installed a cheap window AC.

November. I cut my antidepressant by 25 mg and have a chocolate bar at eleven pm.

2023-2026

thoughts on the end of postpartum

irony: the worst but most honest essay I've ever written

One afternoon, while swimming in the lake, you float on your back and then dive down to scrape your fingers on the weeds. Take me, you beg them. Strangle what’s left.