I’m still deleting emails. It hasn’t gotten old yet. This quiet excavation of a life lived in subject lines and timestamps. Somewhere between “no longer relevant” and “why did I save this,” I keep brushing up against memory. Not the dramatic kind. The soft, ambient kind that hums […]
I have developed a slightly unhinged relationship with my Gmail inbox. What started as a casual “let me clean this up” spiraled into a full archaeological dig of my life. I didn’t just delete emails. I went backwards in time. August 2026 to April 2022. Thousands upon thousands […]
In this world of text and instant messages, email use (according to my son) has decreased. Of course, you wouldn’t know that from my work email inbox. I receive way too many emails on any given day. A great percentage of those emails are, to use a technical […]
We all know very well that we get way too many emails. No one talks anymore. Even emails may be too last century at this point. Emails are too long for many. Text messages may be the method by which most prefer to communicate. But […]
I have always been attracted to fire. Mesmerized. Intoxicated by it. It’s beautiful and dances alluringly so. Sadly, I have also seen firsthand the detriments of fire having had my home many, mnay years ago burned down. I was actually a young girl, a toddler and it is […]