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If you love to think about the ways life intersects, this newsletter might be for you. Having spent a decade plus trying to keep the categories of my life neatly contained, in the same way a child might try to ensure their peas don’t touch their potatoes, I’m now learning to live an embodied life of faith.

Honestly? I write about what I’m thinking about. But what I’m thinking about usually falls into one of these categories:

mothering, trauma recovery, making peace with my body, nervous system regulation, chronic illness, and always the steady undercurrent of God holding those things together.

If you’d like to check out a few of my most popular posts you can do that here:

What a task

Annelise Roberts

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October 20, 2023

In our current cultural milieu it seems insensitive to write a piece about something domestic. But this essay put words to an important distinction about what it means to care for people. Care is love in action, and for most of us, that starts at home, or in our neighborhoods, battling to stay present to the lives in front of our faces.

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You're not doing it wrong

Annelise Roberts

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September 15, 2023

What do you do when things feel messy? Our garden this year is messy. It’s full of weeds. I planted the zucchini too closely and it infected the squash with powdery mildew. The cucumbers have been struggling all summer. Most of the carrots never germinated despite my replanting them. I’ve sort of given up.

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Vignettes

Annelise Roberts

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September 22, 2023

Vignette - noun: vignette; plural noun: vignettes a brief evocative description, account, or episode. verb: vignette; 3rd person present: vignettes; past tense: vignetted; past participle: vignetted; gerund or present participle: vignetting portray (someone) in the style of a vignette.

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