choose your fighter
on knowing and naming our living saints
September 19, 2026 draft
Start here
Where to begin
New here? Start with these three.
porch raspberries
a poem
April 23, 2026 draft
letters to my dead mother vol. 13
you can't keep a good woman down
December 25, 2025 draft
By theme
94 letters, gathered
Poems
Short things, said slant.
Letters to my dead mother
Letters I keep writing to my mother.
A series. Read in order, oldest first.
- letters to my dead mother vol. 1
- letters to my dead mother vol. 2
- letters to my dead mother vol. 3
- letters to my dead mother vol. 4
- letters to my dead mother vol. 5
- letters to my dead mother vol. 6
- letters to my dead mother vol. 7
- letters to my dead mother vol. 8
- letters to my dead mother vol. 9
- letters to my dead mother vol. 10
- letters to my dead mother vol. 11
- letters to my dead mother vol. 12
- letters to my dead mother vol. 13
The church year
Advent, Lent, saints, and the gift of liturgy.
- choose your fighter
- we have work to do
- prose, pathology, and poker
- a nap and a snack
- peace like a brick wall
- a third act kind of hope
- are those lions outside?
- an expert's guide to lent
- christmas cards on fire
- tuesday offering: mary probably knew
- saint eeyore
- what if we sat in the dark?
- tuesday offering: st. teresa of spa city
Grief & hope
Losing, finding, and almost missing hope.
Paying attention
The little things are the big things.
Neighbors & strangers
Loving the people next door, or dying trying.
The blackboard
A monthly list of what's resonating.
A series. Read in order, oldest first.
More letters
Everything not yet in a theme, newest first.
- prepare yourself...
- pray me old
- the beat goes on (even when everyone acts like it shouldn't)
- plot twist!
- bloody marys and breast biopsies
- a frog and toad life
- pretty, little, dying things
- do it or die trying
- log from the cape
- the (actual) summer we should all strive for
- tacos are for the living
- an honest rollercoaster
- gimme a hammer
- we don't deserve ornamental cherry trees
- thank the pain
- racism, cancer, boobs, and other things my four year old son knows about
- 3 reasons why midwinter doesn't suck
- 2025: let's get weird!
- re:joy(ce)
- riding the struggle bus
- i've had worse
- prepare yourself...
- make of it what you will
- when there's nothing to say
- we're going on a bear hunt
- january is for chain smoking
- elf watch 2023
always, emily