Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you to soften, can wake you up.

“Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of he…”

“She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91)”

“God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.”

“I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.”