Tag Archives: Life

On Seeing Hamilton and the Value of Experience

Sarah White May 23, 2017 Life2 Comments

Affiliate links included for your convenience. I’ve been on a Hamilton fast all month. The cast recording and the mixtape. It’s been really hard for a person who listened to one or the other most weeks for the past eight months or so. But there was a really good reason …

The Short Film about Creativity and Life Every Parent Needs to See

Sarah White May 5, 2017 Creativity Boosts / Life0 Comments

A super-short film about creativity has inspired me, and it will inspire you, too. This is so good. If you need to cry today, or have a transcendent experience, hang with me for a few. The short film Alike had been on my radar for a while, but I finally …

How to Survive a Creative Slump

Sarah White February 21, 2017 Creativity Boosts / Life3 Comments

This year has been hard for me creatively. I just haven’t felt like making anything. I’ve been doing a little knitting here and there, maybe a tiny bit of sewing and some mending. But I haven’t felt inspired or really fired up to make anything. Or to write much. Creative …

I Wasn’t Going to Write about Today

Sarah White January 20, 2017 Life1 Comment

The girl is quite literally an Obama baby. I had a doctor’s appointment — after which I’d given myself permission to start trying to get pregnant — the day before his first inauguration. We talked about that amazing concert on the Mall that had me in tears, so full of …

A To-Do List for Where We Are Now

Sarah White November 18, 2016 Life3 Comments

It’s probably no surprise that I’m disappointed by the election results and have been feeling, like so many others, that I should have done more to prevent what has happened and what is going to be happening. I can’t change the election results, but I can take heart in the …

How to Take Care of an Older Cat

Sarah White November 1, 2016 Life0 Comments

Mr. Bean has been our cat for almost 15 years. We got him and his brother, Louis, the year we got married. They were together for 13 years, and were our furry kids for a long time before we had a human child. There’s no denying that Bean is old, …

Waiting for Fall in the South

Sarah White October 18, 2016 Life1 Comment

It starts around the weekend of the first college football game. We want to call it fall, but that’s in August so everyone knows it’s not really fall. Then there’s Labor Day, when the rest of the country can declare it to be fall but we are still sweltering same …