I received a question on LinkedIn in response to my post on Just A Secular Homeschooler, "What We’re Doing for 5th Grade for the 2024-2025 School Year," asking how I keep track of everything. While I answered that question in the context of homeschooling, I thought I'd answer that question in general in a series… Continue reading How I Organize My Life Part 1: PARA
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What I’ve Been Working On: July 2024 Edition
It's been too long since I last updated this blog, which is a shame. A lot has changed since then. For example, I now have five children; the oldest has graduated from college and graduate school with an MFA degree, and the youngest just turned three. I temporarily (for 2 1/2 years) set aside Activism… Continue reading What I’ve Been Working On: July 2024 Edition
Things That Inspire Me
This is Post 9 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I already mentioned that I like the outdoors. Taking time for downtime always leads to inspiration for me. Rather though than write an essay, I'm just going to make a bullet list of things that inspire me. Perhaps some of these… Continue reading Things That Inspire Me
Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset
This is Post 8 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimate Blog Challenge. Probably the most useful piece of information I've gotten that has helped me with combatting anxiety has been learning the difference between having a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. I also keep this in mind when talking to my kids… Continue reading Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset
Just Add the Outdoors
This is Post 7 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimate Blog Challenge. As a kid, I spent hours in my backyard. We were lucky enough to grow up with a huge yard that backed up to a hill. I was only a Brownie Girl Scout for a year and while I bridged to… Continue reading Just Add the Outdoors
There’s No Instruction Manual (AKA Simplify)
This is Post 6 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimate Blog Challenge. This post contains affiliate links. No matter how many self-improvement, business, productivity, parenting, success, etc. books line our bookshelves, the truth of the matter is that when it comes to life, there is no instruction manual. How convenient it would be… Continue reading There’s No Instruction Manual (AKA Simplify)
A Step-By-Step Guide to Getting Your Shit Together
This is Post 5 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimate Blog Challenge. Don't we all need this after the year and a half we've had? I know I feel like I do. I created a set of pages in Notion called "Project Get My Shit Together." For this very task. I feel a… Continue reading A Step-By-Step Guide to Getting Your Shit Together
Our COVID-19 Story
This is Post 4 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimtate Blog Challenge. This is hard to write for many reasons. A big part of why it's hard to write is that there are still, a year and a half into this thing, people who believe that the pandemic is a big hoax and… Continue reading Our COVID-19 Story
Looking Forward
This is Post 3 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimtate Blog Challenge. Looking forward is hard to do right now, I'll be honest. There are a lot of things I would like to do and accomplish, but at the same time my emotional bandwidth is short. Between dealing witth the pandemic and adding… Continue reading Looking Forward
Looking Back
This is Post 2 of a 31-Day Blogging Challenge hosted by the Ultimtate Blog Challenge. What a year, eh? When I was a kid, I really wanted to grow up to be a writer and a teacher. In the sixth grade, I spent a lot of time turning my weekly vocabulary words into an ongoing story… Continue reading Looking Back
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