My lovely blue-eyed seven-year-old daughter giggled. “Bad people go to the devil when they die,” and my charming bow-tie and button-down-shirt wearing son giggled, too, “Yeah, but we’re going to heaven because of JESUS.” I stuttered and stammered, “Well, it’s true that Jesus saves us,” I said, “but I’m not sure about the devil. It’dContinueContinue reading “Bad People Go to Hell and Other Parental Panic Moments”
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Right Where I Need To Be
A few weeks ago, after Brandon and I returned from celebrating our tenth anniversary, I looked ahead at our calendar for October. There were a lot of commitments that required a lot of babysitters, which translated to many nights and weekends away from the kids (and several hundred dollars in childcare and travel expenses). IContinueContinue reading “Right Where I Need To Be”
The Florist’s Daughter by Patricia Hampl
The Florist’s Daughter by Patricia Hampl is a deep exploration of two extremely influential individuals on the author’s life: her mother and her father, though much more emphasis seems to me to be on the mother. There’s an intended irony, I think, in the author’s title, the florist’s daughter. Hampl has always considered herself “hisContinueContinue reading “The Florist’s Daughter by Patricia Hampl”
Most Memorable Moment: Ten Years Later
Last night, we went to Bull and Bones Brewhaus and Grill in Blackburg, Virginia (look at that nice alliteration… it’s even a poetic location) for karaoke and drinks. Brandon asked me what moment is most memorable for me from the last ten years together, not counting our wedding day and the births of our children,ContinueContinue reading “Most Memorable Moment: Ten Years Later”
Full Body Burden – Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
I recently finished Kristen Iversen’s book, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, an important and terrifying account of the dangers that lurk in the secrets of our personal and national lives. It is especially important and worrisome as the Denver area experiences such dramatic flooding, stirring up buried plutonium deposits.Kristen Iversen accomplishes whatContinueContinue reading “Full Body Burden – Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats”
Well, Hello There
Would ya look at that? It’s been a month. The MFA summer residency was here and then gone, those two weeks that last two months and then feel like just days once it’s over. I think it might have been the smoothest residency we’ve run since 2007, which is saying something, since I was alsoContinueContinue reading “Well, Hello There”
Confidence vs. Arrogance
Any time I write about self-image, weight lifting, exercising, our diets, publications, and anything at all happy, the following thoughts ricochet about in my brain after hitting “publish” on my blog:People are going to think I’m arrogant and self-centered with all this, “Look how joyful and healthy I am” stuff.Am I arrogant and self-centered?I better write aContinueContinue reading “Confidence vs. Arrogance”
A Little Heavy Lifting Goes a Long Way
I started a new workout regimen a few weeks ago after months of doing hardly anything at all except an occasional yoga class. I had a hard time figuring out when I could fit in exercise during the spring without running from work to pick up the kids from daycare, to cook dinner, to eat,ContinueContinue reading “A Little Heavy Lifting Goes a Long Way”
Looking for the Goods
First off, sarahmwells.com is broken, and I’m unhappy about it. I kept hoping it would reset itself or just reappear, and after multiple attempts to contact customer service people at Google and at GoDaddy.com, I have given up, deleted the domain name entirely, and with any luck it’ll become available again in the next coupleContinueContinue reading “Looking for the Goods”
About "Field Guide to Resisting Temptation"
Today, a short essay I wrote appears on Brevity, a journal for brief nonfiction, called “Field Guide to Resisting Temptation.”I wrote this essay after it occurred to me for the first time that I could be the one to screw up my marriage. Even though my husband and I had talked about temptation abstractly, about bar scenes andContinueContinue reading “About "Field Guide to Resisting Temptation"”
Sarah Marie Wells 