MUSINGS ON LIFE AND WRITING WITH SARAH BUCKLEITNER
I vividly remember the first time I struggled with writer's block in a serious way. It was the summer between my sophomore and junior year, and I'd just spent a glorious month doing nothing but going for long, luxurious runs in the woods with our dog, meeting up at Barnes and Noble with my boyfriend, … Continue reading On Writer’s Block
Recently, we moved back into my childhood home. On one of our first weekends back, I was cleaning out what would soon be my son's closet (which happened to be the closet that I had spent my own childhood stuffing chock full of stuffed animals, prom dresses and board games), and I pulled out a … Continue reading On Finding An Audience
What a wild three months, full of moving preparation, colds, our first ever camping trip as a family of four, cute baby goats and stormy toddler moods. Some things I'd like to remember: Lying under the stars in our sleeping bags, and Linden staring up at the red speck of Mars, far up above him, … Continue reading January, February, March
Back in January of 2020, I wrote a post about some of our goals related to living an environmentally conscious, slow--but also attainable--life (read the post here). Since then, I've watched the world get slammed by a global pandemic, we lost our childcare, we at times had upwards of 8 people living in our small … Continue reading Living in accord with the land: how we’re doing
This kid's language is blossoming, and he cracks us up daily with the funny ways he puts concepts and words together. Some highlights: With my pregnancy, I've been extra exhausted lately, and as a result of picking up my slack, Jordan is also tired. It seems that L has noticed our fatigue. The other day … Continue reading Cute things L says, May 2021
It's hard to believe how quickly the last few months have gone. I feel like I blinked, and suddenly I'm thirty and Hollis is two months old and Linden is three and Jordan is thirty-four (we accidentally clustered all our birthdays within a two month span). We soared through some of the highest highs of … Continue reading October, November & december
(Written January 2020, shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As you can imagine, some of these goals got derailed by our loss of childcare and working full time jobs--but some flourished in the space that lockdown provided. I'll try to elaborate on all of that in another post soon!). For the last few … Continue reading On Living in Accord With the Land
(Written April 2021) Life feels very hard right now. Both on the small scale, and on the large scale. We're coming off of three days of little sleep, with a sick kid who has alternated between lethargic, screaming, and hyperactive. Linden had to go to the ER this weekend, and I couldn't come, because of … Continue reading No Particular Wisdom
Tomorrow will mark one month since the newest member of our family, baby Hollis, was born. When Linden was born, we went simple--we packed our bags with the bare minimum, and forewent many of the items that were listed as necessary on the hospital bag lists that I found. This time around, we knew what … Continue reading Hollis and the twinkly lights
Some photographic highlights from June and July of this year: sleepy pets, breakfast in pajamas, blueberry picking, cousin time, a deer friend, a couch-full of wonderful women, and cute kids in meadows.
Feathery Thoughts 