this year: 130/365

this year: 130/365

The days just won’t stop coming and here it is eleven o’clock again–one short hour left in this day in which I have not given one second’s thought to myself. Yet this practice means I’m supposed to carve out a little time for me each day,...
munchkins: 129/365

munchkins: 129/365

My mother is doing better but still in the hospital, and I have plenty of siblings to cover for me. So I was able to fly to Texas today as planned to visit with the munchkins. Also, I have bronchitis again–fourth time. This is turning into the year of being...
here: 127/365

here: 127/365

I got home from Provincetown last night, and today my mother had to go to the hospital. She has pneumonia. I’m visiting with my father now and then headed to the hospital to spend the night. My sisters and brother and I have been texting and calling back and...
parenthood: 122/365

parenthood: 122/365

Riddle me this: With as ready as I was to no longer be a full-time parent, why do I love movies and TV shows about families–Parenthood, Life as a House, Dan in Real Life, Stepmom, Safe Passage, The Family Stone, “Parenthood,” “The...
the next thing: 121/365

the next thing: 121/365

For years and years I did the next thing–usually very happily. But it took writing to make me present in the moment. In #116 I wrote, This minute, I’m doing the next thing. And that was, in fact, what I had been aware of before I sat down in the spa. But...