I look at the date of my last post and wonder where the time has gone, but the reality is I’ve filled it with work and trips to the playground and any number of productive distractions that seem to be the way I do things. I led an international workshop in Paris, complete with art…
Category: reflections
Goals
The sky is rumbling behind the curtains, the occasional flash peeping in around the cracks to tell me the storm is close. I’m here, behind my computer, a bit restless in the quiet aftermath of bath time and stories and cuddles and the inevitable struggles too much of a day sometimes brings. My one vivid…
Boundaries are in your head
“Everything, as they say, is connected to everything else, and not neatly. There is no clearly determinable boundary between the sea and land, between sociology and anthropology, between an automobile’s exhaust and your nose. There are only boundaries of word, thought, perception, and social agreement — artificial, mental model boundaries.” -Donella H. Meadows, in Thinking…
The stories we tell
I have one picture from my childhood. It’s summer and I am maybe eight. My brother and I are in swimsuits under the fig tree in our backyard, hugging and beaming at the camera. We look happy. I was supposed to give the picture back to my mother, but that was 15 years, ten homes…
Apps, kids, and addiction: A parent’s view
I’m supposed to work on creating better technology, but mostly I find myself banishing it from our house. Not all of it — I clearly benefit from access to knowledge via the internet, and have a fascination with wellness tech (and what it does and doesn’t help me achieve), but the rest? I more often…
A look back, a look forward
It’s been another long year that’s gone by in what feels like a blink. Time is precious, they say, and I feel it more than ever now that we have kids and every moment is full. I do my best to look back at the year that’s gone past and set some intentions for the…