A full heart

Feeling an immense sadness tonight at the fact that my mother has zero interest in being in my life on any terms but her own strange, bitter, peculiar ones. Letting that relationship go for now. Aching nonetheless. +++ Feeling immensely grateful for my incredible friends who have become my family over the years, and for [...]

In all honesty

I feel like I’m in the spin cycle and I can’t get my feet under me. It keeps raining every single weekend. It’s freezing. I have a space heater on in my studio for effs sake. This week both our washing machine and our vacuum broke. It’s impossible to feel like you have your shit [...]

Learning to be productive at super capacity: full-on focus, full-on giggling, full-on being in this moment right now.

Now is a time of full velocity everything: love, little boys, projects, deadlines, dreams, and to survive it, I’m exploring my tendency to want to overfill each moment. I let my attention get messy. When I’m writing, I keep open too many tabs. I bookmark a dozen articles, skimming too many without letting them sink [...]

These are some moments: full velocity, full of mess, full of grace

It’s been a wild tumble of spring-turning-into-summer around here. I’m in the thick of a full, full summer semester. The deadline for my manuscript is looming in early fall. Everything is converging in a miraculous, glorious mess. There isn’t enough time. I’m exploding with ideas. The Kickstarter rewards are still waiting for finishing touches that [...]

Community + belonging: online vs.offline

// Good morning. Here are a few glimpses of my favorite (new) place to get coffee. Bikes + bright, bold lattes and big reclaimed wood tables. A place to collide, connect + get work done… which has me wondering about a topic we’ve been discussing in class lately: what is the value of online communities [...]