Daily Thoughts
Don’t Wish It Away
At some point during the early weeks or months of parenting your new little one, someone will tell you that you will miss these days when they’re gone. At that same point during those early weeks or months (or first two or three years) of parenting your new little…
Do the Write Thing
Because of my husband’s church-related job—he serves as the Director of Traditional Music at a local church near where we live—he gets Fridays and Saturdays off as his weekend, and because of this, I have come to love Thursday afternoons as the lead-in to our weekend….
Don’t Should All Over Yourself
One of the most dangerous words in the English language seems innocuous enough, but, trust me, it’s a dangerous one: should. Despite its danger, I am fairly certain it’s a word many of use more regularly than we ought. And when we do, we use it to inflict some serious…
A Course of Breakfast Discourse
There are two questions I regularly have difficulty answering. The first is what do you do? This one is tricky for me because there is not one thing that I feel captures what I do, but, even more, I don’t like the idea of being defined by what I spend my time doing….
My Words, Their Voice
In recent weeks I have been trying to map out my life. Again. This isn’t the first time I’ve gone through this exercise and I know it won’t be the last. Even so, I am trying to work out what direction to take with my writing and, because the two are so intertwined,…
In the Light of Delight
One of my favorite days of the week is library day. In fact, library day has been a favorite day of mine ever since I was about four (at least that’s how the story goes from my childhood). My mom has told me the story about my love of reading that began when I was…
Choices, Choices, Choices
I read recently that on average we make somewhere around 33,000 to 35,000 conscious choices per day. I don’t even think my mind can completely comprehend that statistic because that seems almost astronomical when considered in connection with decision making and…
Are We There Yet?
When I was a kid, summer vacations were definitely a thing, and by vacation, I’m talking about the family vacation where you loaded up the family car and took to the road heading for somewhere new and that might include fun kid-focused activities, like maybe an…
Listen for the Voices
Sometimes, as a neurodivergent person, I can become fixated on a thing (some may say obsessed with, and I’d be okay with that because, well, it’s accurate). Right now, my fixation is the Camino de Santiago and the sacred journey it provides those who choose to hike…