Today is my 41st birthday. It’s been filled with love, (free, delicious) food and drink, and with people I love. I actually super love spending my birthday responding to the messages, texts and tweets that come my way. Some might say that I should be out there living my best life, but actually, I’m really […]
Month: September 2019
A Quick Reflection
This weekend was hard. It was the first weekend in a long time that I had a lot of work that needed to get done. It was work that was displaced from Friday when I was home with my “sick” daughter who had the lungs of someone with walking pneumonia, but had the energy of […]
Moving Away from the Hamster Wheel
My life, for almost as long as I can remember it, has been a constant run on a metaphorical hamster wheel. When I was a child, I spent a lot of time bored. I would fill that time with reading or writing or schoolwork or watching television, but I was very lonely a lot of […]
Growth
Today was a breakthrough day, in what has been a breakthrough school year. I have committed to learning Mandarin (my heritage language), reclaiming my time, and making healthier choices in my life. These things are remarkably uncomfortable. They force me to move from my comfortable, but futile, state of perpetual busyness to be present to […]