I’m about to work 7 days a week for 20 days straight. What lays ahead are work days that are 15-16 hours long. I will have a regular day job, an evening job, a weekend-long job, and be responsible for the lives of 8 other people on a camping/climbing trip. So this weekend I went […]
I’m beginning to worry I don’t know how to live without chaos. We’ve made it through the longest nights of winter. But it’s still winter. My husband caught COVID, so I did as much as I could while I was still testing negative. This included taking my nieces rock climbing and ice skating for one […]
Sometimes I feel like I spent years waiting on someone or something. These days I try not to. These days if I want to do a thing, I just do it, with or without someone to do it with. This is hard. I know we are pack animals at heart, but I think about all […]
My soul was so tired I felt like I was sleep-walking by the time I got to Thursday. I was dreaming with my eyes open. I felt like a Mumford and Sons song: “How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyesI struggle to find any truth in your liesAnd now my heart stumbles on […]
I am trying to do a better job at listening to myself. The trouble is, I know my brain is a liar. It says things like “we can’t” or “we don’t have anything of value to give” or “wouldn’t it just be better to stay in bed for an extra 30 minutes instead of going […]
As the days are fluctuating between 80 degrees and 30 degrees I’ve really had enough of it. I’m ready for summer. So I obviously saw this while mindlessly scrolling Facebook on one of the 30 degree days: “Encouraging a child to go outside in all weather builds resilience, but more importantly it saves them from […]
I don’t know what the songs are talking about. Walking in winter is Never a wonderland. The air stings your nose and eyes, ice forms where your lungs used to be, any exposed skin goes numb and begins to ache, any unexposed skin is muffled in so many layers it’s difficult to move. The whole […]
I can’t coin the term Microadventure, that belongs to Alastair Humphreys and the word basically means an adventure that is “small and achievable, for normal people with real lives”. Technically I think it’s supposed to be an overnight adventure but who has time for that, really? I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea lately and […]
