Sometimes delight doesn’t move through us with the propulsion of a yip-laugh, but it can move us all the same.
Category Archives: books
The Curiosity Cure
When you feel irritable, leverage curiosity’s effect on the brain to feel good instead.
Overlapping Timelines
On wonder, excellent books, and songs for joy and connection.
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Work When Baby Works
For the first time since Baby A was born in July, I’ve embarked on a writing project.
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Bookshop
Welcome to my Bookshop! Plus: Something delightful in the sky.
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Healing
On living a different kind of month and wresting delight from a not-delightful time.
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He’s Here
A very important personal update, the best maternity leggings you can buy, and books to carry you into August.
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A Season of Transitions
A professional achievement unlocked, articles to help with traumatic birth and mental health postpartum, and one tenacious swallowtail butterfly.
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New From Me, Your Curated Reading List, & Something Delightful
New newsletter format: You’ll get Emily’s latest writing, a curated reading list, and something delightful delivered straight to your inbox on the last Thursday of every month.
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What Not Reading a Great Book Taught Me About Giving and Receiving
I don’t have enough fingers to mark the number of times folks have told me to read Braiding Sweetgrass. The recommendations always sounded similar. It’s about indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge and plants, they’d tell me. That sounded like a compelling premise to me, but also risked being a dry one. I was in graduateContinue reading “What Not Reading a Great Book Taught Me About Giving and Receiving”