Today’s post is for parents and caregivers: I’m spotlighting two fantastic parenting books that I read recently and am recommending widely. (If you have a parenting/caregiving book that you love, please comment below or share with me on social– I’m all ears!) Both of these books are enormously helpful with parenting during the young school-age […]
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40 in 40
One of my favorite quotes from Anne of Green Gables (the movie version) is “Every day is fresh, with no mistakes on it.” This encapsulates exactly how I feel about New Year’s Day, the first day of every month, Sunday mornings, and the day after a holiday or vacation. Suffice to say, I love a […]
Reflecting on 2020: Don’t Bother
Many writers have been attempting to sum up 2020, wrapping it in commentary of either sadness for our nation’s health and soul, or gratitude for our survival in the hardest of times. But I’m not going to try to do that. I usually spend the last week of December reflecting on the previous year and […]
Time To Celebrate!
I spent yesterday dancing, laughing, celebrating, and texting gifs of people doing the same. All of this was the catharsis I needed to resolve my memory of election night four years ago. I opened the New York Times app at 2:30 in the morning while nursing my newborn daughter, praying that I could whisper in […]
Mid-January Life Update
Today is the start of this month’s blog streak! I’ll be posting every day from now until Saturday. I love blogging week because it pushes me to write more freely. I love it even more this month because I’m hip-deep in creative projects at the moment and feeling so good about it. But let’s start […]
2020 Anticipation
The first two reflection posts have served their purpose. In the past few days, they’ve prompted me to re-read my journal from 2019 (well, I skimmed it– it was tens of thousands of words long), write a list of my 2020 commandments (I’ll share it soon) and start my why/what/how goal and habit systems for […]