sharonifesto

Girl, wife, grammarian. Writer, reader, practically permanent student.  In the fourth year of my PhD in English, sweeping out the dusty corners of my brain in search of a dissertation, and in all ways losing my sanity.  


I'm a homebody with the travel bug.  I have a family spread all over the globe, from London to Cuba to Papua New Guinea.  I love books, Neil Diamond, college football, baking, the Bar Method, cheese, the golden age of Hollywood, shoes, and jazz, in no particular order.  I get a little feisty when I'm in a good mood, and if I think I'm making you laugh, it would take a freight train to shut me up (not that I know how that would work).    


I have big dreams, but I can't always tell what they are, so I spend half my time looking forward and half my time covering my eyes.  I get these flashes sometimes where I feel like I can see strangers through the perfectly loving eyes of God.  Somehow it's like I've zoomed right up close to them and love them desperately because they are so beautiful--and they never even know.  I believe in the emotional power of literature.  I remember all kinds of obscure pieces of information and forget important things.  I talk to myself a lot--with an accent. I have to resist the urge to over-explain myself. I hate cold weather but I love how a really October-y day feels.  Except for my year in Washington, DC, I've lived within 30 minutes of mountains and the ocean my whole life, and if I'm away too long I always feel a little unmoored without the one, a little landlocked without the other.  I'm too stubborn to be addicted to anything.  I do secretly want to be a writer.  Or at least I secretly feel I have poetry in my soul.  But I don't want to write poetry.  


I believe in God, and I believe He is good, even when it doesn't look like it.  And if I have one goal in all of this, it's figuring out how not to lose my soul in busyness - to live thoughtfully, meaningfully, and joyfully.  Especially joyfully.


I'm constantly navigating the distances between who I think I am, who I really am, and who I'd like to be.  I've been blogging for three years and still don't know what I'm doing, but I'd love your company anyway.  Say hi, tell me a little bit about yourself, stay a while.  And if you have any questions, just ask. :)