Dear Lily June, Once upon a time, in the 1800s, Scottish Highlanders who needed a distraction from cold winds creeping under… Read more How to Carve a Pumpkin–On the Occasion that You Need a Few Pointers
Category: Memories and Memoir
Excerpts From the Glossary of TeaMo–On the Occasion that It’s Pumba Season
Dear Lily June, You were born long after your father and I had laid a solid groundwork of inside jokes,… Read more Excerpts From the Glossary of TeaMo–On the Occasion that It’s Pumba Season
The Talk, Part 14 of 10,000–On the Occasion that You Ask About How I Met Your Father
Dear Lily June, Once upon a time, I fell in lust with my first. When we broke up, I fell… Read more The Talk, Part 14 of 10,000–On the Occasion that You Ask About How I Met Your Father
Picking Out Curtains–On the Occasion that the World is Not Such a Beautiful Place
Dear Lily June, Recently, your father and I celebrated our sixth year of marriage to each other. It was a… Read more Picking Out Curtains–On the Occasion that the World is Not Such a Beautiful Place
Golden Pesto–On the Occasion that You Get an Urge to Lick Your Walls
Dear Lily June, Though I’ve still been working on whittling down the collection of boxes and boxes of paper in… Read more Golden Pesto–On the Occasion that You Get an Urge to Lick Your Walls
Hide and Seek–On the Occasion that You Need to Get Lost
Dear Lily June, I have been lost to this blog for almost a month. I have been absent from letter-writing lately, maybe… Read more Hide and Seek–On the Occasion that You Need to Get Lost
A Walking Shadow–On the Occasion that You’d Rather Perambulate
Dear Lily June, Your mother is walking again. On her walk today, during her hour-long lunch break at work, she… Read more A Walking Shadow–On the Occasion that You’d Rather Perambulate
The Influentials, Part 2: Adulthood Edition–On the Occasion that You Need a Read Later On
Dear Lily June, Oscar Wilde once famously quipped, “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines… Read more The Influentials, Part 2: Adulthood Edition–On the Occasion that You Need a Read Later On
The Influentials, Part 1: Childhood Edition–On the Occasion that You Need a Read Early On
Dear Lily June, It was in graduate school, when assigned to write six-word autobiographies, that one of my peers came… Read more The Influentials, Part 1: Childhood Edition–On the Occasion that You Need a Read Early On
One Summer–On the Occasion that You See a Loved One Committed
Dear Lily June, It’s hard to know, with a story like this, where to begin. Do I begin by telling… Read more One Summer–On the Occasion that You See a Loved One Committed
