bitchin'...but not a bitch

I am two weeks from moving again, this time into a home I bought all by myself with no man, no help from anyone and it feels empowering in a way but also, I stand weeping in the home I’m still ...

https://hollypelesky.com/2023/01/18/starting-over-again/

I keep thinking about writing, keep contemplating coming back to it. I am a lapsed writer. There was a time when I wrote and read and read and wrote. I was in school and I wasn’t working full-t...

https://hollypelesky.com/2021/05/27/lapsed/

has been unprecedented, of course. But it’s had some lovely little moments. I’m finding joys in domesticity. My kids are the age of board games and reading chapter books and piecing together ...

https://hollypelesky.com/2020/10/08/this-year/

It has been a season of songs on repeat, which I guess all seasons are for me, really. I read something about how people with anxiety rewatch the same shows because they know what to expect and h...

https://hollypelesky.com/2020/07/09/q220-songs/

What I never expected to find during quarantine was community. The boys and I live in a second-floor apartment with a building on each side of ours and three additional buildings behind ours whic...

https://hollypelesky.com/2020/05/21/community/

I spent today pushing my cart around Target, thinking about how I could put into words who Chad is when I got home. I was going to write twice: something long here and something short on my Insta...

https://hollypelesky.com/2020/05/18/chad/

I’ve been underemployed for awhile now. By awhile I mean over six years. As long as I’ve had Holden, I have either not worked or pieced together gigs intermittently. Last year, when Holden st...

https://hollypelesky.com/2020/05/05/working-during-coronavirus/

It was Saturday night, the night of my latest noise complaint, that I was piecing together a puzzle while I listened to a CD and texting my sister about tea that I first learned the word hygge. T...

https://hollypelesky.com/2020/03/19/hygge/

I’ve been watching this baby each morning and the two of us have found a rhythm now. It’s been years since my children were babies but I remember now how hard it was to just have dinner made ...

https://hollypelesky.com/2020/03/12/with-an-empty-wish/

If you’re lucky in a life, you get the opportunity to reconstruct it. I am here, surveying my life. I am finding what to make better. I often do this in my home: look around the rooms, find wha...

https://hollypelesky.com/2020/02/12/rooms-to-tidy/