Sweatpants & Parenting | There’s Always a Lesson
What happens when a new mom obsessed with productivity is too tired to be productive? A life-changing revelation, that's what.
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March 12, 2019
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January #TreatYoSelfTote2018 | Reconnect
Happy New Year everybody! It feels like we’ve collectively *blinked* and somehow we’ve traveled around the sun once again.
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January 3, 2018
The Persistent Optimist | When Full Feels Like Empty
I woke up today with aching hands, a line of hot tension snaking down from my neck to my fingertips. Why am I in pain? I
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July 20, 2015
What’s Your Hurry? | The Persistent Optimist
The backroads from my son’s school to our home are exquisite: hilly and finally green, since we’ve gotten just enough rain to
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March 2, 2015
Zen For Busy People: 5 Sneaky Ways To Steal Serenity
For a couple of years in college, I was a Zen Buddhist, or what I thought one was. I read a lot of books from the New Age
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October 31, 2014
For Here, Please | Get Down To Get Up
Mike told me he was going to put up signs around the neighborhood that said, “Missing: My Serenity.” Like the lost pet signs
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September 15, 2014
