In Search of Family Dinner
This is a piece I wrote for the magazine. I haven’t asked what their policy is on posting pieces elsewhere (this will be printed and our content is curren...
Author: noemikjames
Friendship Without Common Ground?
I’ve been thinking, and reading, a lot about friendship lately. One book is all about dealing with the loss of an important friendship. There is a lot abo...
The New Me
In the past three months I lost 25 lbs, got an IUD placed, bought (and was gifted) a whole new wardrobe (and even some new jewelry and shoes), tried in earnest ...
Is this what the future looks like?
Twice this week my daughter has asked for something and when I informed her that I didn’t know where that particular thing was, she told me it was fine. T...
Recognizing Depression
Medical science has created all manner of diagnostic tools over the years. There are blood tests that detect the slightest traces of hormones or other markers i...
Writing as a Hostile Act
This is the second paragraph of Joan Didion’s “Why I Write,” which was originally delivered as a speech at University of California, Berkeley ...
Identities that Define Me
{Our most recent writing assignment was about unpacking the different identities that we feel define us. This is what I wrote.} Woman First and foremost, I iden...
The Beacon
{I’m struggling lately with how to determine if my thoughts and feelings are valid, if they have any basis in reality or if they are simply constructs of ...
Vignettes
I pull up to the house and put the car in park. I open the gate, then the front door and immediately hear my children bustling upstairs with their grandparents....