Fiction, Essay, Photography … Sometimes Vampires
I've been stuck trying to write an intro to this, because it would need so many caveats. I guess I'll make them a footnote?* Zoom into my small existence and I just love my little family. I love my baby! Six months is a fun age! Homemade South Jersey blueberry puree I talk a lot… Continue reading send no flowers, the visions never stop
Well, I let this Draft sit unpublished for three months.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
Laura Eppinger 