I’m now 34 weeks pregnant. I didn’t expect I would be feeling this reflective the third time around. Or maybe it’s that most moms of 3 aren’t necessarily people who get the time/space to write thoughts, let alone think deeply amid the vast expanse of responsibilities society expects from mothers. And maybe that’s why it’s…
I can’t deny that this year was one of the hardest years EVER for me. Many of the Christmas cards, holiday greetings, and yearly updates will tend to bypass our hardships and focus only on the positive highlights. But I think this is a mistake. I assert a new idea: We CAN handle the adversity…
I’ve been thinking about death for a very long time now. Long before the death of a family friend’s spouse this month. Long before the threat of it taking my dad earlier this year. Long before its breath tickled and taunted me by taking someone in the lives of almost all my closest friends- someone’s…
I know change is hard for anyone and everyone. But, damn, sometimes I feel like I’m ALLERGIC to it! I’ve noticed I’ll do pretty much every single thing to get up to it and then I’ll sort of just dawdle at the front door. It is really annoying. Really, really, really. However. I’ve been thinking…
I had a mind-boggling experience today. I went into a meeting to advocate for empowering students at my daughters’ school. I left the meeting feeling like I was forced to do the emotional labor for White Privilege. “White Privilege” (that’s what I will call this person) was in a position of power in this meeting…
A small preface: I wrote this entry end of summer. I forgot to come back and do the polishing on it so I never got around to publishing it. It’s still pretty recent though so I decided to resurrect it from my Drafts Graveyard for your enjoyment. Late is better than never, right? It’s still…
I don’t even know where to start. I’m feeling a shock wave of fury right now and I’ve decided one of the best ways for me to channel that is to write. And I don’t know where to start. One of the most difficult barriers for me in dealing with the onset of the Trump…
I really believe that everyone who crosses into your life does so for a reason, however transient. And January was in my life only briefly. We were classmates when I was in 5th grade and she was in 6th grade. She was a part of a group of 6th grade girls whom I really liked…
Hello, World! It’s been awhile. I’ve missed you much and yet the world continues to spin without me in it. In a metaphorical sense, that is. I’ve been here and I’ve not been here. About a year ago, I retreated far into myself to figure out what was going on in here. And I did it consciously…
There is so much to write about the last 6 months that there is no way to really start. So I’ll just need to start where I am. Soooo my discipline is crap. Pure crap. No, really. One of the ongoing debates in my mind is how to do everything I want, not miss out…
Be More Creative. After looking at the plethora of my Christmas presents this year, there seemed a common theme. Creativity. Some were ones I asked for. Like, on a list. They weren’t all creative gifts on the list but the ones picked OUT of the list were. The others were just given to me in a…
The era I am currently in is the one where the kids are under 5 years of age. I call it, “The Bubble”. I wrote an entry about it when Abbey was first born that I never published here. Because, well, Abbey was just born. But here it is in its entirety. “There’s this episode…
Commonly, we think back on our parents and think of all the ways we don’t want to be like them. Or how they messed us up and bestowed on us all the issues we have today. What got me thinking about it is when I saw this on my FB newsfeed. I do think the…
Happy Easter!! It’s the end of another challenging self-experiment. Lent has ended. This year I went for giving up socializing in text. I still went on FB, email, and could text message but not for social purposes. It was refreshing. I still had access to everything but I felt a lot less inclined to get…
Pop Quiz: What do being on the phone with a consulting nurse, being in line for the sandwich bar, putting in a pet reservation for an upcoming flight, attempting a correction to a loved one have in common? A: They all happened to me in the last two days B: I would be interrupted; the…
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