She built the creative house I live in

I write and self-publish personal essays because she helped create the genre.

It finally feels like summer in Portland. We were hiking at Powell Butte on Saturday.

Dear Sundays,

I have spent the last few days trying to understand why I feel such grief about Heather Armstrong's passing. I knew her, but not well. We worked together in 2008 on one of the first parenting web series on the Internet, Momversation. There are not enough wo…