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…
Déjà vu
It is Christmas, or nearly so, and we are yet again wearing masks in shops and watching case numbers climb as we go about our merry way attempting to buy gifts and see family or friends and pretend it isn’t happening all over again. Thanks, covid — best gift ever. Sarcasm aside, this is life…
The wandering mind
I’ve marked the birth of each of my children with extended visits with a psychologist. There’s nothing surprising about this — each birth is a process of transformation, both for the mother and child, and for me, these particular journeys have been fraught with the realisation that I have work to do before I can…
Sabbatical
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and stumbled on this one the other day, which I found fitting for this time of year. In it, podcast host Tim Ferriss and Jerry Colonna (CEO of Reboot.io) spend a good amount of time talking about a two-month sabbatical Jerry takes every year, and more broadly about…
Habit forming
It’s late and I did all the things I wanted to today — my first day of freedom. It was glorious. And also not that exciting in the grand scheme of things, so I’ll spare you the details. Instead, I’ll note that I created this blog to help me build a habit of writing regularly,…
Quarantine games
Around the house we go, creating games to pass the time. Hide and seek, capture the flag, obstacle course… Any excuse to run wildly. Pull some weeds, rake the earth, cover our fingers in dirt, plant some seeds we found in the cupboard somewhere. Picture a meadow of flowers. Listen to the rhythm of the…
Here, we wait.
“Where do you want to go today?” I ask my oldest. She has a thing for the Northern Lights, so we spend a little while trawling YouTube for videos before doing another few laps around the house. She put together a rainbow obstacle course for part of the lap, just to mix things up, and…