As I am sitting at my desk attempting to get some work done, my phone keeps beeping. Most of my notifications turned off means that what comes through generally requires attention. Both my boys are in school, but they still manage to interrupt my day with access to phones. “Mom, can you remind me to…….?”“Mom,…
As we attempt this journey to return to pre-pandemic “normal,” it seems that the rhythms that once worked are no longer working for many of us. Have you felt it? This push to return to “normal,” only to find the things that have returned to what was, feel far from normal? Perhaps it is because,…
The little girl walks bravely across the street to deliver a special letter while mom watches over her from the porch steps of their home. The little boy eagerly runs around the block playing with his friends, not knowing that moms communicate via text monitoring their location. The preteens are finally allowed to cross the…
A great deal of our lives is made up of tasks. The little details and habits of daily life, carried out with a sense of pleasure and beauty, can be just as important to us as the tea ceremony is to the Japanese. The way you handle the details of a meal or a bath,…
There was a season in my life where I would wake early and not stop until I crashed each night. After getting myself ready for the day, it was on to get the kids up and ready for school, drop off kids at school, then teach preschoolers all morning, and afterward head to a second…
August arrives demanding more than we have to give, asking us to be both fully present in the remaining days of summer while optimistically productive in preparation for the next season to come. August has the feel of a month living simultaneously in two seasons. It is a month that holds both summer and a…
