2020 was my year of habit change. Each month I challenged myself to change a specific habit. The motivation to do this came from reading Atomic Habits, by James Clear and watching this Matt Diavella YouTube video. 2020 was an interesting year to take on this experiment but the timing ended up impeccable. In a […]
Category: Life
What I want my daughter to know about relationships
Since Anika turned six, going on sixteen, I’ve come to the realization that she has already begun to think I don’t have a clue about certain things. I know this is normal…but I would like to think that I have a world of knowledge I could share with my daughter. However, I was a middle […]
Stop Trying to Solve a Problem Until There is One
I have spent a significant amount of my lifetime thus far worrying about potential situations that I need to fix. I have lain awake at night contemplating how to handle future possible problems. Conversations have been practiced and emails drafted in my head handling uncomfortable scenarios. For many years I have fed myself the lie […]
Lessons in self care from the trees
“The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.” -anonymous This past week, through a lesson in my daughter’s remote learning, I had the opportunity to brush up on the science behind why trees drop their leaves in the fall. Trees are sensitive to changes in their environment. When […]
Learning to Own Who You Are
Recently my dad brought over a container full of old home movies of my childhood from age 7 until about 18. Growing up I was passionately involved in theater, dance, piano, voice lessons, and band concerts- and my dad filmed all of it. My daughter received so much joy from watching these videos. Seeing her […]
Meditation
There is one small change that I make in my life that improves everything in it for the better. My health, physical appearance, attitude, happiness level, brain function, sleep, relationships. Sounds to good to be true, right? It has been scientifically proven to be possible to do these things. All it takes is 20 minutes […]
She’s back in the bubble…
Anika started kindergarten in the fall. She did well with the change. I had a more difficult time. I’ve been home with her full time since she was born and to say there was a void in her absence would be putting it mildly. Nothing prepared me for the way I felt the day she […]
Jacob turns 3
Jake turned 3 last week! We celebrated under quarantined conditions but despite the restrictions I think he still had a wonderful day. This year was fun. For the first time he was aware of what having a birthday meant and had adorable expectations for it. These included presents, decorations and a cake. Thankfully, I love […]
Love thy neighbor…from six feet away
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” -Fred Rogers I stopped watching and reading the news after my children were born. With the hormones and sleep deprivation I found it […]