Instead of making New Year’s Resolutions, I’m a fan of the word of the year. Just one word that acts as a guide for decisions and plans as the year goes by. Words like Balance, More, and Succeed have been my motivations for the past few years. Continuing with the theme from last year, Succeed,…
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Unblock Me
Lately every time I sit down to my computer and open ye olde WordPress dashboard I feel…silly. Like this blog is frivolous and there are far too many important things in my life and in the world for this to even begin to matter. (But on some level it does matter. It’s six years of…
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
Ever since having Joshua, I’ve thought of various ways I might celebrate motherhood in a tattoo of some sort. About a year into PPD, I wrote a post that ended with a letter to Joshua where I talked about how he is the only one who knows what my heart sounds like from the inside and…
A Grammar (and exercise?) Mistake You Need To Stop Making
Have you seen the “What’s YOUR excuse?” mom’s picture floating around the internet? If you haven’t don’t worry. This isn’t about that because I don’t care what you look like as long as you like what you look like. But that inspired this little rant-ucational blog post about a grammar (and exercise?) mistake you need…
Finding Walden
“I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear” –Henry David Thoreau…