Archive - Chasing Ghosts

Grief math: a different kind of logic

(Content warning: death, sibling loss.) I do this math because it is a reminder of space and time in the after, a reminder how far I’ve come in a place…

May 16 •

April 2025

The alchemy of time and objects

Notes on purging, packing, & how objects connect us to our past selves

Apr 28 •

October 2024

The present moment

Seasons as teachers, ghosts and haunts, being responsible for your joy, and some reading recommendations. (You can listen to a voiceover of this essay…

Oct 29, 2024 •

June 2024

I'm not a kayak girl

"Am I boring now?" and other thoughts

Jun 17, 2024 •

April 2024

Love note to a waking-up world

There is a memory I always associate with spring. My brother and I would run out into our driveway in our swimsuits, stomping barefoot through the…

Apr 15, 2024 •

February 2024

On the search for story

Also: Orion, myths, a compass, writer's block, wayfinding, haunted houses, and Harriet the Spy

Feb 19, 2024 •

January 2024

Step into holy space

On taking a walk, being open, crossing thresholds, nostalgia, and EMDR therapy.

Jan 9, 2024 •

December 2023

An argument for the curiosity project

On following curiosity, cults, The Nutcracker, the Winter Solstice, writing about others, and lampposts marking the passage of time

Dec 18, 2023 •

9 books I read and loved in 2023

📚Also: Book gift ideas for adults, tween recs from my 12-year-old stepdaughter, and books for kids of many ages with some help from Sarah Miller's "Can…

Dec 4, 2023 •

November 2023

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