I’m back! As it turns out, I didn’t even have to take the site down; it was so easy to replace the theme. I’m still editing (I need to replace the header with something more exciting, and I’ve been told that the whole site needs more color) but I like how much cleaner and more […]
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Day 5: Curating Inputs
The best form of self-care is monitoring what I put into my body and my mind. I can’t be in a healthy, happy place either physically or mentally unless I curate my inputs, eliminating unhealthy things and emphasizing the healthy/happy things. That’s never been more important than it is now, with the future so uncertain […]
Days 3/4: More Mishaps
I tried hard to stay on routine, and keep my kids on theirs, for the first few days of the week. But on Friday and Saturday, I lost my stamina and decided to have a couple of days that were more relaxed. We did a little less “Sowul School” with Edwin, and I spent more […]
COVID-19 Quarantine, Day 1: Privilege
It’s not really day 1. This all started on Friday, when at the very end of our district’s conference day, we were notified that all schools in our county would be closed for two weeks. I spent the weekend processing and preparing. On Monday we had our first non-work day, and on Tuesday I had […]
What Being Open Really Means
My word for 2020 is OPEN. If you’d asked me what that meant on January 1, I would have said it’s a state of mind that encourages me to notice and seize possibilities. OPEN prompts me to be prepared to act, and act boldly. It pushes me to take risks. On January 1, this felt […]
Cross-Pollinating Creative Practice
“How would you practice this?” I asked my private flute student. She’s in ninth grade, very talented, and currently working through the Anderson Opus 24 Etude book. (Flutists will know the one.) “What would you do first?” She told me that she’d play through the first few lines very slowly. Then, once she’d gotten a […]