Mindful Flow

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 [...]

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 [...]