When I was a kid I started suffering from insomnia in about fifth grade, and it continued for years. I would lie in my bed, staring at my little white plastic alarm clock that played “Here Comes the Sun” and desperately try to will myself to sleep, while the minutes and hours ticked by. […]
Diary of a Road Warrior
Sunday 8:00pm Ok, I checked into my hotel. Seems decent. I’m going to unpack and sit down with my materials to prepare for tomorrow. This is so good. I’m going to go to bed early, get a full nights’ sleep after two nights of dealing with the teething toddler. I’m going to work out, […]
Happy New Year…now stop procrastinating!
In celebration of my blog being a year old, I seem to have completely forgotten to write any posts for the last month. I started this blog with the intention of capturing stories of my family and my observations about life, culture and identity. I think I’ve successfully filled this site with random ramblings and […]
Happiness
I’ve been doing a lot of research on happiness lately-not happiness simply as an emotion but a long term state of well being and positivity. I am enamored with positive psychology and how our brains can actually become rewired when we focus on positive outcomes and reframe our challenges. I know, I know. You glass-half-empty-the-sky-is-falling-waiting-for-ths-other-shoe-to-drop […]
Turn and face the strange…
I love the beginning of things. I am excited by the anticipation of the unknown, of new. A new book to dive into, those few seconds before a play or feature film begins, a new group to join, new friends to make. A new project or idea or fitness class. Anything I’ve never tried before. […]
Latchkey Kids
I had a moment of recollection the other day that brought me face to face with my eight-year-old self. When Laura and I were both enrolled in full-day school, but were still too young to take care of ourselves after school let out, my parents enrolled us in a latchkey program. We had to […]
Wholehearted
I have a very intimate relationship with shame. Not to be stereotypical, but growing up as a white Catholic American female, shame is my middle name. The ancient root of the word shame literally translated means, “to cover oneself.” This is pretty much what many of us do when we experience shame. We try to hide, […]
High Chair Blues
My mom was big on table manners and proper eating habits. She also was slightly obsessive about cleanliness. I don’t know how she survived our toddler years. When I was a baby, Mom would put food on my high chair, turn around to prepare something on the stove, and when she’d turn back, the high chair […]
Balance…?
I felt like an impostor last night. I was invited to speak on a panel for young women on maintaining work/life balance as a successful career woman. I’m not sure I’m qualified to be giving advice, seeing as I feel a constant struggle to achieve balance in my life. I looked up “balance” in the […]