The Answer
Of course the answer to my question from earlier today is obvious. What is there to love about parenting? My kids. And I do love them. Fiercely. I can imagine y...
Author: noemikjames
What’s to love?
I love my children. I really do. And I can genuinely enjoy spending time with them, one on one, especially if it’s the weekend and we have some time and w...
The Deep Water
A close friend from college is due in a couple of weeks and I’ve been chatting with her a lot about the crazy transformation she’s about to experien...
Bric-a-brac
I’ve wanted to write this week, but by the time I get the dishes washed, lunches packed, coffee maker ready, laundry folded and clothes laid out, it’...
So why am I crying all the time?
I suspect some of you may be wondering why showing myself self-compassion has resulted in frequent cry-fests. Isn’t the point of being kind to myself to f...
Full Circle
{So this post started one way, and ended another. And the way it ended felt pretty profound. It may seem like I figured all this stuff out already– I̵...
Should I stay or should I go now?
I’m driving myself crazy thinking about my job. Do I want to stay? Do I want to leave? It’s gotten to the point that I don’t feel like I can t...
Try, Try Again
I’m still stumbling around in the area of personal finance, totally unsure of what I should be doing. It seems supremely fucked up that at 35 I have no id...
Retirement is Weird
{I got through Monday, and you know what? It wasn’t that bad! I actually did end up arriving late. Getting out of the house was not awful, but there was a...