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I made lots of excuses for not starting this blog but I suspect that my hesitation had a lot to do with my own worry about belonging and vulnerability. Ironic? It is and I want to use this space to attend to our self-doubt, name the shame, and share our stories. This work is hard but important for living authentically. Here we go!
This crisis, as weird as it sounds, created a moment for me to reconnect with our physical world and for that, I am grateful.
It might be hard, in this moment, to conceive of pressing a metaphorical pause button and actually stopping or, at least, slowing down.
Week four of homeschooling. If you had told me back on March 16th that I would be homeschooling my kids for at least four weeks (now more), I would not have believed you and may have packed up and left the house.
Normally, when we think about permission slips, my sense is that we either remember that we forgot to sign a slip for our kids to participate in an upcoming trip or activity at school OR we recall a time when we had to ask one of our own family members to sign a slip so WE could go on some cool field trip or outing
Yesterday, Steven Mnuchin, the Secretary of the Treasury said, , “To be honest, I think these numbers right now aren’t relevant whether they’re bigger or shorter in the short term.” in reference to the 3.3 million unemployment claims for the week .
According to Merriam-Webster.com social distancing is "the practice of maintaining a greater than usual physical distance from other people or avoiding direct contact…"
I remember being around my grandmother whether alone or with a group, and someone would be sharing something, a story, a scene from their day, or a recent memory and she would often say “Tell me this, Carey” or to whomever was chatting.
As I mentioned in a previous blog, I am a work in progress and, sometimes, when I am working on a new project or paper or participating in a new experience feelings of fear and doubt, or shame accompany this new work.
Are you a bucket filler or dipper? Now, if you know me or have started listening to my podcast or reading this blog, you should immediately push back on this question.
What is it to be a work in progress? Well, for a long time and even often times now, I approach a task or goal thinking that the end result has to be extraordinary.
I am a methodologist by training and so I try to notice and point out (sometimes to my friends’ and families’ annoyance) the data that is all around us, so it is entirely appropriate that this blog would include a nod to some form of data.
I hope that you will enjoy this journey and I am grateful for the opportunity to share with you.
I can only speak for myself, but these pandemic days are hard. Even as states, towns, and communities start to slowly reopen, this new normal is challenging, stressful, and uncertain.