Mondays are my days where I usually blog about some aspect of parenting while working from home. Especially in a creative industry like writing, it can be incredibly hard to carve out respect for your work time, carve out worth [...]
Mondays are my days where I usually blog about some aspect of parenting while working from home. Especially in a creative industry like writing, it can be incredibly hard to carve out respect for your work time, carve out worth [...]
School is winding down for us and the countdown is in the single digits. Some people send their kids to camp, others have their kids in spring and fall sports. I figure if I’m going to have them home all [...]
Monsoon season has come to lovely Ohio, and already the dehumidifiers are working overtime, and the pea-soup air is making my yearly declaration of “no A/C until after school ends” a failure seven days into May. But one thing the [...]
Admit it. You’re scared. I’m scared. We’re scared. As parents, we double down on the fear factor perhaps more than people without kids. But the truth is, we live in a culture of fear. We’re bombed with it, 24/7. All [...]
What’s your truth?
Have you ever had that “set-adrift” or directionless feeling? Are you unenthusiastic about your work–whatever it may be–or feeling like the effort just ain’t worth it–no matter how much “effort” it really is? We all have ebbs and [...]
Yeah, today’s the Time Change. Just when you’ve gotten used to getting up when it’s finally beginning to lighten outside, you get knocked back to waking at Oh-Dark-Hundred. Seems like this whole “Spring Ahead” thing does nothing but put you [...]
You can trot along feeling like you’ve settled into your pace, and you’ve got this “walking on two feet” thing down pat, and suddenly look down to find–or rather to NOT find–your feet. You don’t know where those suckers went, [...]
Okay, it’s getting on to the end of January, here. Are you sick of winter yet? For my good friends on the underside of the world, you don’t need to come back and read this in 6 months–it works in [...]