Mindful Flow

As a child, one of my favorite books was Morris’ Disappearing Bag by Rosemary Wells. A little older, Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. There’s power in invisibility (and really good [...]

My mind is a run-on sentence: pack thestroller, firstaidkit, extradiapersbecauseRiverpoopsatnightwhenyoutravel. Pack yourlaptopcharger, ipodcable, preloadanaudiobook for the 2.5hourdrive. [...]

The Anti-List Lists : Here’s what an oddball week looks like, with my child still home on winter break but my business up and running. Work gets done during naps, which do still happen but aren’t [...]

DAY 2/10 The Anti-List Lists : If I write “notice the wind” on my list, am I more likely to do it? If I say out loud, “you have enough time,” am I more likely to let go of that underlying [...]

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 [...]