Category Archives: lessons learned

October 2018, check. (Double check)

Posted on November 9, 2018 by rglw

October was an entire year rolled up into one month. When I look back on 2018, October may be my best month, yet. Too many things and so many more things happened. The list: Exercise (make room for one non-WIP … Continue reading →

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September 2018, check.

Posted on October 5, 2018 by rglw

My mind has taken years to unwind from an academic calendar. It’s Q4. Not the start of school or a few weeks into the semester. We’re in the final 92 days of 2018 and I am ready to take on … Continue reading →

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August 2018, check.

Posted on September 6, 2018 by rglw

I never think summer is over when August is over. In the northeast, it’s hot well into October and sometimes we get a few sunny skies in November, too. It’s a cruel change of heart around Thanksgiving but I can … Continue reading →

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July 2018, check.

Posted on August 14, 2018 by rglw

July was madness. It was joyful and thrilling and relaxing and amazing. We were a family of three, then four again then five. We celebrated a 7th birthday, picked up our oldest from her first month away at camp, hosted … Continue reading →

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June 2018, check.

Posted on July 13, 2018 by rglw

June is always the end of something. No matter how much we try to make it about summer kickoff and the start of something fun, it always feel melancholy to me. Melancholy and sunny. We saw the end of lots … Continue reading →

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May 2018, check.

Posted on June 5, 2018 by rglw

May was longer than long. May was like three months packed into one month. My husband and I turned 40. We’re hanging on for dear life through the obstacle course of the end of the school year. I was able … Continue reading →

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Being 40: 40 things I know

Posted on May 6, 2018 by rglw

I turned 40 this week and the day was supreme. All day, though, I had thoughts running circles around my brain. I needed a place to put them so I could return to them some time in the future. Looking … Continue reading →

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April 2018, check.

Posted on April 30, 2018 by rglw

Spring is here–except you’d almost never know it given the wacky New England weather. It rained this month. It snowed this month. The sun shone strong and it broke 70 degrees more than once. I wore rain boots and snow … Continue reading →

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Push/Pull: On parenting through

Posted on April 20, 2018 by rglw

I’m 50 feet off the ground and I’m coaxing my six-year-old to take a step off the first platform in an aerial ropes course. We’re harnessed into a writhing metal feat of engineering and the risk to her safety is … Continue reading →

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March 2018, check.

Posted on April 5, 2018 by rglw

March was supposed to be redemption month. It came in like a lion indeed with a bout of stomach sickness for me just after I recovered from the flu. And then life felt like a sprint until it didn’t, as … Continue reading →

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