17 ways to bring beauty to a suffering world right now

If February, the pandemic, politics, or the weather has got you down, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed with negativity. In the spirit of finding beauty and helping others in the face of feelings of loss, here are 17 ways to bring beauty to a suffering world right now. I wrote these ideas aiming… Continue reading 17 ways to bring beauty to a suffering world right now

10 ways to honor someone who has died

Here are ten ideas of how to honor someone who has died. This ideas focus on expressing memories of and wishes for the person, creating beauty in honor of the person, and caring for yourself and your relationship with the person.

Rituals sacrificed

When people ask me what it was like to have a baby during a pandemic, I have an easy answer and a hard answer. 

The easy answer goes, “It was tough laboring and pushing in a mask. I’m grateful that the nurses let me take it off a lot.”

The hard answer is more complicated. It goes something like, “I feel like we had to skip parts.”