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What does #civicduty look like during a pandemic, when you can’t leave your house? Today I’m celebrating Sadie Kneidle who serves as English Language Learner Family Liason for our ENTIRE school [...]

No school breakfast, no school lunch, no job security, no way to “stock up”… I keep thinking about families who are isolated, who need more than they have access to, who might agree that yes—of [...]

How long has the machinery of our days been shaped between such heavy hands? How much depends on the definition of a word? Task, list, achieve, complete. Open your hands. Let loose the doves [...]

And on the other side of rest, is the blessing of new energy and authentic presence. The ability to hear the train then drop the coat, drop the mittens, and run with all your (tiny-legged) might [...]

Today, the sky is my teacher. Over eggs and bacon, River and I make guesses about the unseen world. Will branches block our driveway? One moment, sideways rain thrashes through the early dark. [...]

How can we be in motion, and rest deeply at the same time? Imagine a river. It never stops flowing. But that’s only the surface view; because of course how and where it flows is constantly [...]

“Stupid is as stupid does,” and sometimes rest is just rest. As in, my husband and I got very little of it last night. Today’s call to action for deep rest is therefore straightforward: just [...]

“The hypnopompic state (or hypnopompia) is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep…the hypnopompic state is emotional and credulous dreaming cognition trying to make sense of real [...]

One Hour. THIS. #slowisthenewfast #selfcare #relax #anticapitalist #authorlife #mompreneur #entrepreneur #solopreneur #againsttheodds #benice #cats #takeyourtime #revisiontips #flashfiction [...]

How much less can I do? How much less can I do? I repeat this to myself throughout the morning. Driving home after dropping River at Montessori, I don’t listen to an audiobook (which is like [...]