Category: <span>Thoughts and Musings</span>

My eight-year-old daughter C asks the most annoying question: “Wait, what?” She asks it in that way that only a frustrated eight-year-old, youngest of the family, can as she navigates…

Intentional Living Thoughts and Musings

“Rest” feels like poison ivy to me. At the conclusion of one day, I’m already asking, “What’s next?”  I’m hardwired to plan, execute, and pivot with speed and efficiency. Until…

Intentional Living Thoughts and Musings

My children are learning about straight lines.  About the concentration that goes into a straight line. Not the continuous path laid by a pencil’s sacrifice, but the intermittent punches of…

Intentional Living Memories Thoughts and Musings Wanderings and Travel

When the first note–the wrong note–soared out of her violin, I stopped breathing.  She stood in front of the audience of strangers, of other children fingering violins, guitars, and piano music, and…

Intentional Living Memories Motherhood Parenting Thoughts and Musings

I’m relearning addition and subtraction alongside Miss I, and can I tell you, 12-5=? still has me doing some mental finger counting.  I feel much more comfortable with the opposing…

Five Minute Fridays Memories Thoughts and Musings

It’s 6:52 am and I watch the college student in orange parka and backpack walk to the fluorescent-lit corner bus stop and I watch the Pittsburgh Port Authority bus arrive with lights blazing…

Five Minute Fridays Thoughts and Musings