When I’m good I’m Calm Appreciative Patient When I’m bad I’m Angry Unrealistic Exaggerating When I’m my best I’m Dancing Singing Warm Loving The trick isn’t to stop yelling or being angry or exaggerating. The trick is to dance more. To sing more. To hug and hold and love. To be grateful for every...
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I have not done a good job of keeping up with my blog. I was posting every few days. Now it’s a week. Maybe longer between posts. Things are not easy right now. Today everything kind of hit me. I held my son who couldn’t fall asleep and pressed my nose against his warm...
Continue readingBound To Go Wrong
A lot of us are remote. Distanced. Online. Interacting virtually a significant portion of the day. Things are bound to go wrong. Miscommunications. Wrong orders. Interruptions. Internet going out. We have to roll with it. And laugh. We can and will get through this. A little flexibility, curiosity, and perseverance goes a long way....
Continue readingNow Is The Time
Now is the time to be flexible, empathetic, thoughtful, engaged, willing, and vigilant. Now is the time to help others. Now is the time to be smart. Now is the time to learn and grow. Now is the time to come together. Now is the time to find some collective sense of togetherness. Now...
Continue readingNo Time For BS
I got an email today that just wreaked of bullshit. It was insulting. Disingenuous. A game. And I don’t like being part of a game. Especially one centered around someone else’s ego. I don’t have time for that kind of crap. And I just won’t put up with it. Maybe that means at some...
Continue readingTime Doesn’t Stand Still
Even though it may feel like it does. Especially when things are painful. Or hard to acknowledge. Or scary. But those moments will pass. The sensations we feel are simply that. And in the next moment we will find that time has moved on. Nothing lasts forever. In fact nothing lasts longer than a...
Continue readingWhat A Dream
I don’t care that you don’t sleep. I don’t care that you throw tantrums. I don’t care that you’re all consuming. I watch you dance and sing with mommy in the living room and I’m overwhelmed by you all. How lucky can I be? I get to spend my life with you. You bring...
Continue readingThe Present Moment and Space Balls
Is so hard. Dealing with a sleepless night or fussing child. Watching someone die. Feeling anxious about speaking up in front of a crowd. Whatever may be happening in the moment can be so difficult to manage. But it’s usually because we aren’t focused on the moment. We are focused on the unknown moments...
Continue readingStill Right There
Like I could just pick up the phone and call you. Seems so natural. When I’m watching the boys do something silly. I just want to share it with you. And then I remember. But it’s not painful. It’s more a reminder of how close you still are to me. A testimony to how...
Continue readingHow Valuable Are You?
Chances are you don’t know. Or you’ve forgotten. Or you’ve beaten yourself up and lost sight of your value. Often the stories we right in our own heads don’t really align with reality. We tell ourselves we aren’t good enough when in fact we are and then some. No one else can tell you...
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