There are ways this week has been incredibly hard, and there are ways this week has been pretty good, which I think is where a lot of people are finding themselves as we approach the one-year mark with this pandemic. School vacation week ended (on Tuesday, not Monday, for some reason), which was great, but … Read more
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Saturday Morning Coffee: February 6, 2021
We’re a week into February, which means we’re coming up on almost a year of being in pandemic mode. It’s been a difficult week, more a current running under the surface than specific events, but I noticed a theme in the links I’ve been reading and which ones resonated. This is hard and exhausting sometimes. … Read more
Saturday Morning Coffee: January 2, 2021
And now we find ourselves in 2021. Not much is truly different, but I know most everyone is glad to leave the last year behind us. I’ve seen a lot of people (among those who post these things online anyway)shrugging off the idea of New Year’s resolutions in favor of simply letting go of … Read more
Sunday Morning Coffee: November 1, 2020
It’s been an eventful week, and this morning I relished in a long morning in bed with the kids, reading and opening Halloween candy wrappers because the goodies from last night are absolutely breakfast from this morning. It wasn’t an intense week work-wise, thank goodness, but I’m realizing the combination of Will’s birthday and getting … Read more
Sunday Morning Coffee: October 4, 2020
It’s the first weekend in October, and it’s been a full week. Fall always feels like a wonderful time for a fresh start. I’ve always been a fan of the back-to-school feeling, which I’m doing again this year (though remotely, and with kids underfoot at home this time). The bigger change for this space this … Read more
Sunday Morning Coffee: September 27, 2020
I’m trying to carve a bit of rest out of the morning, though there’s a lot going on in terms the whole work- and school-from-home situation and in the wider world. I’ve been quiet on here the past few weeks getting ready to launch the redesign of the site: ta da! As part of … Read more
Sunday Morning Coffee: September 13, 2020
It’s been an intense week as we try to slide back into academic schedules where so little is different from the jolted changes last spring. We’re trying to navigate work schedules, school schedules, and family time, and I’m aware it’s just the second week and things are going to get more stressful (for me, at … Read more
Sunday Morning Coffee: August 30, 2020
And here we find ourselves in the last weekend of August. David and I packed up the kids at the start of the week to take a quick 3-day trip to Vermont (both celebrating our anniversary and getting a much-needed change of scenery). I’d just been there with my sisters and felt the wide-open spaces … Read more
Sunday Morning Coffee: August 23, 2020
As weird as this summer is, it’s been fun in its own way. But over the last week or so, I’ve also felt a bit of a change for the worse. I think my anxious thoughts are ticking upward anticipating the start of the fall semester, for both me and the kids. After lots of … Read more
Sunday Morning Coffee: August 2, 2020
It’s been a busy week, and yet we’ve barely left home and have been hunkering down during what have been some of the hottest days in Boston’s summer thus far. When we got a bit of a break in the heat, I took advantage of the cooler morning temps to make focaccia dough. Every August … Read more
