As an at-home mother of little ones as well as a writer, composer and flute/voice teacher who volunteers as choir director and natural family planning teacher, I have to be really smart with my time in order to accomplish anything at all. Here’s my take on maximizing time and productivity, based on my experience as [...]
In our consumerist society, we fixate on getting things, and often forget that everything has a limit – there is a limit to how much money, time, and energy we have to spend. Instead of figuring out what else we need to get, it would probably do most of us good to think about what [...]
At dinner last night, our four-year-old daughter looked up from her bowl of noodles and announced, “I am a goofball.” Fair enough. No one was willing to argue the point. After all, we have seen her take a toy kitchen sink, center it on her derrière and say, “Look at my sink-butt. Take a picture.” [...]
The first time I actually paid attention to a flight attendant’s words during a safety demonstration, I found myself questioning whether or not I would obey this directive: “If you are traveling with a child or someone who needs assistance, secure your mask first, and then assist the other person.” What kind of mom would [...]
My mother never talked to me about sex…ever. I grew up in a home where public displays of affection were violations of etiquette. This aligned with my mother’s erudite upbringing and Victorian repression of sexuality. This also led to my naïve introduction to the world of the sexually active. When I was 18, my mom [...]