Fiction, Essay, Photography … Sometimes Vampires
Well, I let this Draft sit unpublished for three months. It was ready to go, but within a week of writing it I was in the ER. I just hit Publish now. Why not? I have sooooooooo many thoughts and feelings on the Before trilogy. I started feeling like myself post-birth in February, and throughout… Continue reading plus three months, minus one organ
I watched Before Sunrise and liked it even more than I remembered. These films have been fantastic at making these characters feel real, and evolving in ways that feel so authentic I find myself forgetting this isn't a documentary. In 2025 I am chilled by how prescient the script was about tech. 23-year-old Jesse, in… Continue reading April Unplugged
First cherry blossoms of the year spotted in Collingswood, NJ Early in my postpartum life I joked that I was making a list of songs that made me cry, out of love and overbrimming emotion, while singing to my baby. But let's get real: It's all of them, at one time or another. That said,… Continue reading But green is the color of spring!
I am ten weeks postpartum tomorrow. Two and a half months of my sweet little one! I can't tell if it is very smart or very stupid to pair up newborn lockdown with winter quad-demic lockdown and also the coldest, snowiest winter in recent memory. Even this statue in Haddonfield NJ needed to bundle up!… Continue reading Living for Winter Light
The poet Ovid taught me that Metamorphoses make monsters. I thought about these myths and their symbols during my year of writing, and throughout my pregnancy. My body changed and did weird things, and sometimes looked and felt so different that I dissociated for a moment. But then I came back, and embraced the change.… Continue reading What I Wrote in 2024 (and Made in 2025)
Laura Eppinger 