Happy 2014 to all and to all a good night.
Tonight, after a wonderful evening, which included new and old friends, Texas queso, butter cake (likely the most delicious thing I ate this year), a bottle of vinho verde and 10 boys under 10 years of...
View ArticleSpiritual bootcamp, here I come (ready or not.)
I’ve just left behind my dogs, kids and husband, along with lists, labels and a logistical labyrinth of childcare arrangements to hop a plane to San Diego. I’ve also just read 116 pages of a book...
View ArticleMy body and I swim a race, have a breakthrough.
Saturday night I sat in a hot salty bath with nerves in my tummy over an email I’d just received from one of my swim team friends. Hi Emily; I went to the pre race meeting this afternoon. They said...
View ArticlePart 2: Context-free excerpts from my Vancouver journal
I had the chance to get away in November. Getting away is good for everyone, and I really needed it. My rock-solid friends, Amin and Gary, invited me to stay with them in Vancouver. And they gave me...
View ArticleNew life
I’m pointing headfirst toward the bottom of a 45-degree incline. In other months, this is our local sledding hill, but today the slope is lush with grass and warm earth, which is getting stuck beneath...
View ArticleExcavating
“Oh my gosh, I love Sarah McLachlan!” you hear your 19-year-old self say from somewhere deep within your 35-year-old body. “I’d love to be your date! Thanks for inviting me.” Fast forward. The house...
View ArticleUncoupled: The wedding anniversary
Note: My 10th wedding anniversary was last week. It was a hard, strange day. And a beautiful milestone. You’re 36 years old staring at the speaker in a conference room with two other people. Your...
View ArticleMCA + Emily En Route = BFF
Check out the increds holiday gift I just received… Merry Christmas, Emily! We re-posted your blog post from foreeeeeever ago on our very important and objectively awesome blog, MCA DNA. And we said...
View Article#metoo
It’s been more than a year since I’ve posted a personal essay…and that’s about all I’m ready to tell about the kind of year it’s been. Emily En Route will resume regular posts soon, but for now, we...
View ArticleIt’s a break, not a breakup
My hair and I are taking a break. Am I sad about it? Yeah. Do I wish it didn’t have to be this way? I really do. What happened? I don’t know, I’ve been kinda busy lately, I guess, but I hope we work it...
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