by JAC | Dec 29, 2020 | Publications, Simplicity
Early in the pandemic I started to regret my brief foray into minimalism slightly. I still have a small space and like order, but I can understand now why my grandparents and my parents saved so much. I wrote about it and it’s up on The Washington Post’s,...
by JAC | May 21, 2020 | Acts of Hope, Linked Publication, Love and Loss, Publications, Uncategorized, Writing
For any other list-makers out there, I published this on HerStories yesterday.””In this time of quarantine, my lists are offering me space outside of the walls of my home, a way of making sense of chaos, a self-imposed structure on structure-less days, and...
by JAC | Feb 5, 2020 | Artists, Story, Writing
“Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.” ― Madeleine L’Engle There is a...
by JAC | Jan 28, 2020 | Love and Loss
“In our deepest self we keep living with the illusion that we will always be the same.” Henri Nouwen In the wake of Sunday’s tragedy, I found my mind instinctively doing something it did when I got my own “phone call” and tragic...
by JAC | Jan 23, 2020 | Linked Publication, Love and Loss, Publications
I have a piece in the Washington Post today about my experience being in a small family, a family of two. Thank you, as always, for reading. You can find the piece...