Parenting as a sensitive and/or introverted person.
I like to have a recipe. I can make anything with a recipe. I'm not afraid to try exotic dishes or difficult techniques, as long as they are spelled out. I could follow the instructions of an old-world Italian lady and make some fabulous gnocchi but I would beg her to write down the steps so [...]
It' Sunday morning. I am in sweats. A bandana covers my unshowered hair. I desperately need to run; be on the trails working through my thoughts in cathedral quiet woods, but my kids have other plans. Let's go to the flea market, they beg. It's the last one for the season, they say. It is not [...]
The soul grounds us and the spirit frees us to soar. ~ James Jordan, The Musician's Spirit I constantly dream about my college years and my time as a singleton living in Chicago. It's as if my subconscious is stuck in my early twenties. In my dreams, I am on endless walks across vast green campuses [...]
Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson in 1962's movie To Kill a Mockingbird True excellence takes sacrifice, mistakes, and enormous amounts of effort. ~ Rafe Esquith What if schools focused more on each child’s character development and less on standardized tests? Rafe Esquith author of Teach Like Your Hair is On Fire uses Lawrence [...]
…we did spend a good part of our income on household help. I don’t regret that at all. Baby-sitters allowed me to preserve my sanity, to the extent that I have it. I always had at least three hours in the morning to write. I couldn’t have given up writing. I think I could have [...]
These are not my children. Never too early to start a technology addiction... I can’t reach my kids. And I think I know why. They have the attention spans of minnows. I can’t say that only children have this problem. We adults are just as bad with our iPhones and web browsing. Hell, I [...]