Things I'd Tell You If We Were Actual Friends
The voice behind The Overwhelmed Home

This is out of order, and it's not building toward anything. Some of it's funny. Some of it just is. All of it's the kind of thing that actually comes up between people once they know each other a little — not the polished version, just the real one.

There's the mint tin my dad carried, and what took me years to actually understand about it. The flat-pack desk my daughter thanked me for vacuuming near, while the actual work went completely unnoticed. The hardware store moment where I realized, mid-sentence, that nobody had appointed me the person who knew things — I had just quietly become her. My sister, my brother, my husband, all getting a word in about who I actually am, whether I asked them to or not.

This is how one very ordinary person became the one who notices everything at home — one ordinary Thursday at a time.

If you've read The Overwhelmed Home, this is where you'll meet the voice behind it. Before there was a series, there were these stories.

Things I'd Tell You If We Were Actual Friends

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