COURSES

Podcast: Best of Both Worlds

Podcast: Best Laid Plans

Reading Travel

Vac Prep

Packing Progress While I concede that ChatGPT probably could have written a similar list faster, for me thinking THROUGH the list felt like a valuable exercise. (Maybe it’s just my old Xennial brain cells crying out for the good old days, but I feel…

June 7, 2025
life

5 on a Friday: Finish Line Edition

1- End of school finish line. I think I remember saying last year that I was limping to the finish. This year . . . I have walked slowly and deliberately to the finish. Honestly, I’m proud of myself! I’m not sure why this…

June 6, 2025
Parenting

Tiny Griefs & Celebrations of Parenthood

“Tiny Griefs of Motherhood” I definitely can’t take credit for the phrase – it comes from this Mom Hour ep that aired earlier this week. But I do kind of love it. Like the hosts, I am not the kind of person who was…

June 5, 2025
life

Thinking Through Summer Routines . . .

I shared my own goals for June earlier this week (though I haven’t entirely finalized Q3’s list – will do that this weekend!).  But the internet and podcast-land is filled with discussions of aspirational summer routines, and I can’t resist adding my own ideas…

June 4, 2025

Weekend + Travel/Exercise Thoughts

Weekend Report It was a JOSH-CALL weekend and BOY WAS IT. Meaning: he was basically gone all weekend, not even home for dinner (both nights). This was a bit sad but I kept telling him – last push until vacation! I think that got…

June 2, 2025
Goals

June Goals: Keep Up & Have Fun

JUNE I filled out my monthly calendar yesterday with color-coding: clinical days, non-clinical work days, and vacation. June features 5 full vacation weekdays (our NH trip!), 9 clinical days, and 6 non-clinical work days (only IF I count one Friday where I’ll be traveling…

June 1, 2025
life

5 on a Saturday: End of the Month Edition

1- It’s so satisfying to finish up books at the end of a month! Somehow it worked out that I was at the tail end of BOTH my non-fiction and my fiction read this morning, and I finished both. I am at 20 books…

May 31, 2025
Best Laid Plans

COVER Reveal!

I just received a tip-off (thanks Jenny!) that my book’s cover is now live on Amazon (and on Bookshop as an ebook, too! Somehow the cover image hasn’t made it to that site for the physical book, but I’m sure it will)! And yes,…

May 29, 2025

Easy Work vs Hard Work

Anyone else guilty . . . . . of (sometimes) choosing the easy things first and then kind of running out of energ, particularly on less-packed day? The only thing that serves as a motivator NOT to do this is (duh) a deadline. When…

May 28, 2025