Midlife


How to recover the story telling

How to recover the story telling

I have so many thoughts swirling these days on my writing. What it has become, and how it’s changed. I don't know how to recover what is lost. Here’s what I do know. I want to tell the story of my life. And I have more than my words to tell that story. Another thing I know. I want to tell that story here, on my blog. Not on Instagram. Not on Facebook.

September update: my Montreal trip, a time of solitude, folk festival and building project videos
The Clothesline Episode {YouTube Video} & living my best summer life

The Clothesline Episode {YouTube Video} & living my best summer life

I know to be suspect of things that are too good to be true. Also, that fairy tales aren’t real. But this summer, as we’d say in grad school, "is challenging those narratives".

Thoughts and feelings as we are about to move

Thoughts and feelings as we are about to move

The intensity of this whirlpool of experience and emotion has released my ages-old, nebulous, and miasmic fear of failing my children and the more specific fear of the pain (for them and me) of the inevitable struggles, difficulties, and suffering of life.

We're leaving the kids

We're leaving the kids

I have a goal to produce more more video content after we move to Nova Scotia. But first I'd like to close the Montreal chapter and talk a bit about leaving the kids.

The quest for a work “thing”: Introduction

The quest for a work “thing”: Introduction

Still looking for the “thing” that will captivate and direct my vocational capacities post-child raising and homeschooling.

Roadtripping without angst

Roadtripping without angst

Funny how when you're resourced with more time and well, resources, travel (and day-to-day living) is less stressful.