Mothering
The point of processing
September 9, 2019
Two big things are happening in life right now, the kids are leaving childhood and I'm actively preparing to launch a second career. And my writing has been a tool to process both of those changes, to chart the landscape at the unknown edges of my map.
A late summer rain
September 3, 2019
They'll choose, and are choosing, their own path as adults. But we chose their childhoods, in the same way every parent does.
Wrapping things up
August 21, 2019
On these late summer days, as blackening red drupes weigh down the chokecherry boughs and the pears hang like pendants on the neighbor's tree, everything ripening and suspended, it feels like a holding year. Waiting for next thing to start, but knowing we won't get there till we finish this first.
As we finish homeschooling 3 kids through high school
July 31, 2019
I don't have the same sparkly idealism. (It's fun! It's easy!) What I have instead is years of experience that have confirmed what was once just theory - it's possible to do something different with education and to build the kind of relationships I envisioned for family life.
Warrior Parents & Parenting with the Enneagram
June 26, 2019
How do you respond when you need to step into an extraordinary role which you don't feel equipped or prepared for? Livingston Lacroix shares her experience of raising a special needs child - the grief, the losses, and the triumphs. And she talks about the gift of the Enneagram in her life and relationships.
A Friday Introduction (and a bit of Instagram talk)
June 14, 2019
Sharing the Friday Introduction I posted to Instagram today. An update to my current about page here on the blog.
Solidarity at the margins
May 1, 2019
We have to experience what it's like as the outsider, the minority, the one without rights, to know what it feels like to be marginalized.
