making space for creativity
The other day my mom said she recently had a conversation with a life coach about the intentions she wanted to set for February. My mom said that she was hoping to do more things out of place of peace. And the life coach gently asked her about what practical steps she could take to…
When I feel sick or sad or overwhelmed, I instinctively reach for either my well-worn paperback copy of CS Lewis’ Voyage of the Dawn Treader or the comforting sounds of Jim Dale reading JK Rowling’s Harry Potter. Those are my very favorite books, and the ones I’ve re-read the most. When I read the sentence…
In the bleary few weeks of new motherhood, I have had a number of friends quietly comment that they wished that they had not just read about pregnancy and birth but also read a lot more about breastfeeding. Postpartum can be a bit of a surprise in terms of just how immediately and unceasingly…
I’m nearing the end of my second trimester now, but during my first trimester, in a very unscientific survey (in which I googled “paleo” and “pregnancy”), I found two common themes. Number One, the paleo pregnancy panacea, in which said woman felt awesome all the way through her pregnancy via eating paleo, no morning…
It’s day thirteen of school. (Not that I am counting.) We’ve now been in Wisconsin for six months, and now these past three and a half weeks we have finally started doing (full time) what we came for: teaching and writing and caring for family. To be completely honest, it’s…
reason one :: walking & stories For as long as I can remember, I have loved to walk and think of stories. It seemed so natural to me, that I was surprised to discover early on in marriage, that Evan did not do the same thing. He, if left with open time on a walk…
Self-care. It’s kind of an amorphous, trendy category, but one that people (at least on the internet) generally agree is important. Google says there are more than 655 million hits for the term “self-care,” and 40 million blog postings related to the term. Plus there’s a wikipedia article on it. So, it must be…