Creating a Beautiful Life
Many parents are now living full time with their kids. Here’s a parenting tip that helped me when I first started living with my kids around the clock. When I was first adjusting to being with my kids around the clock, something I found helpful was this: I leaned into my kids. When I found…
Happiness is a Practice This afternoon I was driving along a road that runs parallel to the ocean. It is a cold day here in New England, just twenty-one degrees, but the sun is shining. It’s been weeks, it seems since we have seen real sunshine. My kids were in the car with me. We…
This is exactly the way I dreamed of my life when I dared to dream. In the dark times- Cancer, job loss, a marriage close to the brink of divorce, a mental breakdown, alcohol abuse, poor mental health… during all of that I was privy to a glimpse. A glimpse of a good and happy…
I guess I’ve come a long way. All I saw on the halftime show heard from Minnesota to Nebraska was two powerful non-white women absolutely fucking crushing it. A decade ago I too probably would have cried old school feminist virtues. Now though? I saw two women standing in their power, embracing who they are,…
Did you know Billie Eilish is a grown Unschooler? Right. That Billie Eilish. The one who swept the Grammys on Sunday. She’s never taken a test. Never been in class. She learned through living life with her engaged, intentional, and involved parents. And on Sunday she swept the Grammys. I didn’t watch them. As I…
We aren’t as fragile as we think we are. We are capable of handling the hard conversations and setting boundaries. We are strong enough to sit with emotion and think about what it is we mean. We are durable enough to change our mind and shift our perspective and see it from another angle. We…
Here’s what I know: we are losing too many important contributions from women. Instead of speaking up we are camouflaging our stomachs. Instead of saying “no” we are nodding. Rather than swimming, we are staying covered in a chair. We opt out of jumping on the trampoline because our boobs and butts are too jiggly….
Me: “I only work out when I feel like it.” Them: “pssht. If you only work out when you feel like it you’ll never work out.” Me: “ I do workout. When I feel like it.” Them: “I workout a lot because I like to eat.” Me: “I like to eat.” Them: “but I like…
Okay male Noom user on the commercial- you “got your life back” from losing 27 pounds? How much self-worth must you lack to let 27 pounds require the need to “get your life back”? Friends- don’t let this time of year rob you of joy. Don’t let the commercials that are designed by the best…
Here’s to the next new beginning. It’s just the next one. It’s not grandiose or loud. No one next new chapter creates seismic shifts. It’s a million next new chapters practiced thoughtfully, intentionally, and repeatedly that creates new beginnings. I’ve learned the hard way that some of those previous chapters have to be dealt with…