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There’s listmaking, and there’s living. That’s what people who make too many lists are often told by people who don’t make lists. I think there’s an inbetween. As a lifelong listmaker, I see [...]

The badger becomes medicinal. Adding a body (and whiskers, such cute whiskers) to the voice of the #capitalistpatriarchy, suddenly takes everything down a notch. The messaging (“not enough time” [...]

TALKING TO A BADGER : All day long, a voice badgers me, saying, “You’ve got your #todolist, now get to it!” And all day long, a wiser voice looks the other way, or calmly replies, “There’s [...]

Plenty of time looks like throwing the lists in the trash, staring up at the sun on a 20-something-degree winter day (my fave forecast, hands down), and #playinghooky for all but one hour of [...]

  I’ve been learning about how to be a truly #empatheticlistener. As somone whose writing is often described as “deeply empathetic,” and as a woman whose friends often thank her for “being [...]

I woke determined find the moments in the day when space and time could open up. The more space, the better to see one’s blind spots. The more space, the better to gain perspective. But but [...]

DAY 3/10 #plentyoftime : It becomes immediately clear that the myth of “not enough time” rolls off the tongue, especially in parenting. But what freedom I experienced today, NOT indulging in this [...]

I fail. And while I’m failing, I waste energy noticing that I’m diving headlong into my to-do list, instead of checking in with my sense of well-being and my need to write, first. Twenty minutes [...]

DAY 1/10 #plentyoftime : Here’s the myth—“never enough time to get it all done.” For the next 10 days, I will not let those myths make decisions for me. Media messaging depends on them [...]