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All morning you feel into things, waiting for a message. Some indication of life, creative pulse, consistency. Between the haze of acetaminophen, guaiphenesin, and ibuprophen (day 3 of that [...]

When it’s this cold, sight lines change. Understory hugs the slopes. Hollers and swags your eyes take for granted, suddenly appear deep; foreboding. Trailers, abandoned barns, and houses lost to [...]

 #schooldelay. I don’t panic. It’s truly handy to have a background as an educator. 120 minutes? No prob. I can structure that for a three-year-old with my eyes shut. We start the day and I make [...]

Snow day. River’s been home sick 4 days already. Routines seem a distant memory. I get trapped in trying to keep River and Brad out of my office for a few hours of work, and that’s enough to [...]

This morning the voice is there immediately. I can’t turn it off. It’s the best thing I’ve heard all week. What voice? That writerly one—sometimes narrating the present, sometimes testing out [...]

Today’s habit ran rabbit circles in my head, loud and clear: keeping score. No one likes to admit this about themselves. At least, I don’t. But when the mind is fried and you’re all three [...]

All three of us are sick now and everything comes to a halt—no weekend shift for Brad, no karate for me, no swim lesson for River. It amazes me how the impulse to “steal time” overtakes. My boys [...]

When your little boy is home sick on a day you’re supposed to teach two webinars, the habit is to panic. #breakthehabit and pop bubble gum bubbles instead, which entice even the sickest kiddo to [...]

#embodiment first includes the mind, which is private property and can curate filters that assist with moving forward in life. When did so much of our daily energy start going toward negotiations [...]

#embodimentfirst doesn’t mean #integration isn’t possible. It means habits die hard. The only way forward is a new way, an experiment. For the next ten days, I’ll publicly break some habits [...]