There I was, on deadline, Sunday afternoon, with content to send to a client by 6 o’clock. “Hi! I’m behind schedule right now. I’ll have this to you by 7.” I sent my client. “No problem. I’ll be ready at 7.” He responded. Shit shit shit. I’m starting to stress. I’m worried. What if this…
Tag: life
Change the World: Let Kids Be Little. Let Them Be Wild
As summer is fast approaching, I am working with students day and night who are stressed out about finals, stressed out about grades, stressed out about performance, competition, comparison, and acceptance. What they should be stressed out about is this: nothing. Nothing is worth taking away kids’ precious sleep, their sanity, their hopes, their lighthearted…
Free Range Parenting: I Am Just a Guide
I have always been an advocate of free range parenting, the parent who provides very wide boundaries within which children are free to roam about and explore. And for the most part, for six years, I have been a free range parent. Sure, I hovered a lot when Celaya was very small. It took me…
Addicted to Yoga: An Analogy for Life
I don’t know what exactly called me to yoga this time around. I had tried yoga before. A really good friend of mine has done yoga for years. I have seen the transformation in her, especially as a fellow mother of three who has undergone three cesarean section operations. I have seen her stomach flatten…
Monterey Trip Round Two: Letting Go of My Husband
“Oh it’ll be so nice this time around.” I thought to myself. “Carlos will be with us, the kids will have fun with their papa, and we’ll get to enjoy Monterey as a family.” These thoughts filled my head as I planned a second trip to Monterey in two weeks. For our first trip, Carlos…
The Most Important Day of My Life: I Lost Everything
I am involved in a 500 words a day challenge with a group led by a writer I admire, Jeff Goins. He recently wrote a book I am listening to called Real Artists Don’t Starve. I am a firm believer in this concept, so I bought the book, and so far, so good. So when…
Energy Never Dies: Passion Provides
I can come home, as I did last night, after an eleven hour shift of standing on my feet and talking to kids about history and government, and write a thousand word essay. I can finish an eleven hour shift for the second day in a row, as I did tonight, still full of energy,…
Follow Unfollow: Everything That’s Wrong With Business Today
A trend on Instagram as a way to maximize followers is to find accounts similar to yours, with hashtags similar to yours, and follow them. Typically, the person sees you have followed him or her, looks at your account, likes it, and follows you back. Now you have gained a new follower. Sometimes you wait…