crying season

ready or not

Where, after all, are the farmer-mama-home-educating-yoga-teacher/practitioner-bibliophile-knitting-weight-lifting-cow-milking-stoners?

May 7 • Meg Newlin

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April 2026

hardwood hammer

They sawed first their heads, then their handles, getting some support drilling a hole for attaching them, and then whittling down one end to fit…

Apr 18 • Meg Newlin

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game sees game

the old trick of making a big mess even bigger in preparation for a therapy net to catch me

Apr 12 • Meg Newlin

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it is snowing again this morning, but the lilacs have buds and the crocuses are up

Freddy woke up today and asked: when is it ever going to be a different season, like summer?

Apr 6 • Meg Newlin

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March 2026

dirt road identity

everywhere worth going is down the dirt road

Mar 29 • Meg Newlin

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time slip

I cannot separate their existence from the reality of the timeline. Every moment that I have been, they have been too. Even if I can remember not…

Mar 22 • Meg Newlin

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long time

I read this to Freddy and he said he loved it.

Mar 14 • Meg Newlin

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little vignettes

the week in snapshots

Mar 6 • Meg Newlin

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February 2026

back to crying

I am starting to do this thing again that I hate so much, but cannot seem to help myself. Where I start missing him before he’s even gone.

Feb 27 • Meg Newlin

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mothering, milking, yoga, {repeat}

It’s nearly as hard to be a non-conformist as it is to be a conformist. It is hard to concede to the arbitrary, and that is so very much of what the…

Feb 20 • Meg Newlin

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not a magic button

I was a literal hot mess but I was also kinda into being one cuz everything felt so real in high def, ya know?

Feb 13 • Meg Newlin

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pudding proof

how on earth was I bold enough to venture so far off the beaten path, and also hot damn I fucking did that and it totally fucking worked

Feb 6 • Meg Newlin

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