Every Ending A Beginning Today was the last day of preschool for our twins. Next year all my kids will be in school, and will all be on the bus by 7:00 am. Having been home with little kids for almost 17 years, it feels surreal to have that much time open to me. The […]
The Things Art Can Say I recently read an article called ‘Art is for Seeing Evil’ by Agnes Callard, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. She writes that in teaching her philosophy classes on subjects like death or identity, she finds she needs to include literature by such writers as Shakespeare, Tolstoy, James […]
Something New It has been 3 months since my ADHD diagnosis, and since then life has been – as the kids say these days – a fever dream. I have been taking inventory of so many things. What serves me, and what doesn’t. What interests me, and what doesn’t. I am trying to learn the […]
On Epiphany & Knowing God We celebrated Epiphany at our parish recently, both in the faith formation classes I help teach and at Mass. Epiphany is the official start of the world knowing Christ. It was just a handful of people, the wise men and the shepherds, that he let in on the secret. Knowing […]
Be Not Afraid Recently I listened to an interview with Dr. Jean Twenge, a psychologist and researcher about iGen and its use of social media. This is a topic I am very tuned into, since we are parents to the first generation of children who have iPhones. We are the guinea pigs. One detail in her research […]
Discovering My ADHD, Part II Knowing thyself is the beginning of wisdom. – Aristotle (This post is a continuation of my first post, Discovering My ADHD, Part I if you want to start there.) When I look back, I can see a constellation of events made my coping skills work less and less. I had […]
I was last week years old when I finally realized I had ADHD. The revelation has been a bombshell. How in the world have I lived 46 years without knowing this? Because now that I can see it, there is so much clarity. It is like putting on glasses. And realizing all the ways I […]
This is the first hour of the summer I have had that hasn’t been allocated to something else and I am free to write and wow, has it been a while since I shared in this space. This is largely due to having lots of kids but also because we’ve been traveling and visiting people […]
Before I became a mother to a child with Down syndrome, I had spent time deeply thinking about it. When I was pregnant with my first child, I was in a PhD program for Philosophy, and was assigned a paper about the morality of genetic testing and screening for genetic conditions. As I thought about […]
We are surviving a New England winter with lots of soup and skiing, and I have been in a big reading kick which always makes me happy. Here are some things that I have been loving this month, hope you enjoy them too! 1. What to Read: The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah. I blogged before […]