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What Matters Most
I will never look back on this time and regret it. I won’t regret how much togetherness there was, how close we all were, how day upon...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 29, 20205 min read


The Breakdown
It’s all breaking down. School. Work. Society. Medicine. Economy. Technology. All the pillars of the foundation of life that we’ve been...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 22, 20206 min read


HOME part 1
Gracie and Lily are at a sleepover as I write this, I’m in the kitchen with just Edie and she is happily eating a meal for one. To focus...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 15, 20203 min read


RE/TREAT
In a time of such uncertainty it feels like all there is to do is…pause. Since March I’ve had this huge ballooning feeling inside to get...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 8, 20205 min read


Bright Spots
I have a book for each of my girls and I write to them on big holidays and their birthdays, I’ve been doing it since they were each in...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 1, 20204 min read


Welcome Gracie Juniper
Eight years ago today my waters had already broke. Actually they broke over 36 hours ago and there I was, waiting for you to be born. I...

Emmy Pickering
Jun 24, 20204 min read


The Pinecone; short fiction
The pinecone sat beside the ashtray which was overflowing, the butts rolling carelessly onto the once white lace doily that Alice found...

Emmy Pickering
Jun 19, 20206 min read


PLEASURE | JOY | FUN
Throwback to February when I originally wrote this…I wonder, given current events and circumstances, if anyone has been able to embrace...

Emmy Pickering
Jun 10, 20204 min read


Heart Magic
If you look up the antonym to logic you’ll come across a list of words that likely no one would choose to be defined by. Absurdity,...

Emmy Pickering
Jun 3, 20208 min read


The Wisdom of Now
Tell me if you’ve experienced this in the last couple months; long arduous days peppered with moments of joy and equal moments of grief —...

Emmy Pickering
May 27, 20207 min read


What’s Missing
I’ve rewritten this several times, l don’t usually do that. One of my readers and besties asked me the other day what my writing process...

Emmy Pickering
May 20, 20206 min read


So, What’s Next?
Stock photo of the beautiful but shitty kookaburra When I was in my early 20s I backpacked for 6 months in Australia. I could write...

Emmy Pickering
May 13, 20206 min read