Midlife

A late in the game feminist critique of the labour of reducing household consumption (& why I shop at Costco)

November 12, 2021

Re-evaluating my earlier efforts to reduce household consumption in my homemaking labours.

The News from Nova Scotia

October 30, 2021

Why do people live where they live? How do they decide where to call "home"? How do you define home? How does the answer to these questions change through the different seasons of our lives? What's gained and what's lost in where we choose to live?

Live in each season

October 21, 2021

I had been feeling like I’m ready for this next stage. I’m revelling in it many days. But then there’s the tug, an ache, the memories.

Some thoughts from a recently retired homeschool mom

October 5, 2021

I am in the beginnings of the life stage where the load of responsibility for my children has significantly lightened. I feel it and I love it!

So a funny thing is happening to me in grad school

September 20, 2021

There’s been a longish season over the last few years of questioning my counter-cultural choices, everything from family finances to child raising. And then I decided to go to grad school.

That's how I see-saw

June 14, 2021

It’s not a deficiency in my personality that my domestic life needs a counterweight, a release valve; and that my adventure life needs a regular return to the relationships and places where I’m rooted. When I stop and think about it, this back and forth seems both obvious and intuitive to my wiring.