***This giveaway in now CLOSED. Congrats to our winners, Sandra and Sierra!*** .... “Inside, I’m dying with fear,” he said. “I think we all are.” I read these words in a recent NY Times article, spoken by a seventeen year old boy living in a tumultuous political climate, and I felt them bore deep ... Read More about A Moment to Breathe: A Book Giveaway
When Waiting is Your Destination
I recently lamented to a friend about my growing sense of impatience with the current state of my work life. I no longer have any deadlines circled on the calendar--every paper, article, and book project has reached a stage of completion or been scrapped entirely. Without dates scribbled and ... Read More about When Waiting is Your Destination
On Being Kind to Ourselves
To celebrate a special day last week, I gave myself an entire day of permission. I gave myself permission to do whatever pleases me, and to refuse anything that does not. This means I spent the better part of my birthday ignoring the dishes calling me from the sink and the silent washing machine ... Read More about On Being Kind to Ourselves
How to Sit with both Sadness and Hope
"Grief may be joy misunderstood..." ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning It's nearly autumn in New Jersey. I sit under a canopy of leaves and watch as a single orange-tipped leaf floats to the ground in slow motion. It's a season of small, delicate deaths--where the joy of reaping a harvest ... Read More about How to Sit with both Sadness and Hope
Letting Go as Our Kids Grow
Twenty four hours after pushing and groaning my way through her birth, I clicked the silver snaps on the bottom of my daughter's onesie and wrapped her in a cotton blanket blooming with rosebuds the color of her fingertips. I slipped a matching cap over the dark peach fuzz of her head, ... Read More about Letting Go as Our Kids Grow
Transitioning Well with the Change of Seasons
I woke with a start at 4am this morning. The coming week is pregnant with change, and by four in the morning, my overloaded brain, heavy with the weight of all the unknowns, could no longer rest. It spun and twisted around each anxiety that I haven't given myself the space to process. It reminded ... Read More about Transitioning Well with the Change of Seasons
