I am just home from our holiday party and I am all aglow with the love I feel for my colleague friends. They are so smart and fun and loveable….how can these be the same people I want to muzzle throughout my day? Today I got into such a heated discussion with co-workers […]

Rather than rewrite every past post, can’t we all assume that I have at least as many positive thoughts about my work as negative? I glance over previous entries and fear that I sound too negative, too anxious, too whatever. I’m working on being more accepting of myself–the good, the bad, the ugly. […]

Could Be Worse
The most frequent suggestion friends offered when we were writing Mommy Mantras was this: “Oh, whenever I feel like I have it bad, I just think of Marcy.” I would smile, thank them, and toss their idea out with the rest of the crumpled papers strewn across my floor. Marcy’s situation is a […]

I went to the school nurse and asked her to check out a long standing pain I have been having in my left wrist. “Perhaps it is carpal tunnel syndrome?” I asked. “Unlikely since you’ve been back a week” she politely responded. She asked a few more questions and then wrapped me up […]

It’s often difficult to get instant perspective on situations as mothers. Things happen fast and we’re emotionally charged. But with practice, we can establish a tendency to regularly ’stand behind the yellow line.’ In doing so, we begin to see that the gravity and oppressiveness of situations is magnified when we have tunnel vision. When […]

There’s a lot about mothering that is beyond our control. As humans, however, we have an incredible capacity to change the way we think. Altering our thoughts, in turn, powerfully influences the way we feel and act. Really.