A little planning and organization can make a world of difference during this hectic back-to-school season.
Back to School (Part 2): Plan It Out
Category: ♥ LIFE
Back to School (Part 1): Start With the Basics
Six tips for de-stressing the basics of eating, sleeping, and catching your breath during back-to-school time.
Back to School Survival Guide
Heading back to school is stressful—for kids AND their parents. But if you work to avoid five common pitfalls, your life will go a lot more smoothly during this stressful time.
Inspired: Tom Petty & His Audience
The experience felt at a concert is a unique and rare joy.
Out with the Old, In with the Fried Eggs
An essay I wrote three years ago about how my search for my fixed, true identity may be an exercise in futility.
Nature’s Way Preschool
For the past three years, Nature's Way Preschool at the Austin Nature and Science Center has been a huge part of our lives. But now my kids (sniff) are all big (sniff) and it's time to say good-bye.
The Trouble(s) with Being Authentic
I feel a strong pull to be authentic to my true self, but I often end up going along with the crowd. It seems as though I'm caught between pain from being inauthentic, or pain from being different. But are these really my only two options?
Two Christmas Stories: A Guest Post
I'm honored to have my dad, John Daniewicz, as a guest blogger on this special Christmas post. Two stories dominate our collective psyche during this time of year. What do they have to teach us? As we sit by a warming fire this winter solstice, with Christmas fast approaching, what are we celebrating? It is… Continue reading Two Christmas Stories: A Guest Post
Speed Matters
It is so easy to lose sight of the reality that our schedules are our own doing, that we control how we spend our days. The speed at which we navigate our life deeply affects what we see and how we experience it.
An Old Prayer, New Again
Neil Douglas-Klotz translates Jesus's words in "The Lord's Prayer" directly from the original Aramaic. The result is moving, inspiring, even perhaps a little shocking.
A Season of Doing Without
I haven't written a blog post in an eternity. Luckily this is due to nothing more calamitous than it being winter, when the trees find themselves with no leaves and I apparently find myself with no words. But a canopy of yellow-green now lines the street to my daughter's school, so I too will start… Continue reading A Season of Doing Without
A Rare Visit From the Wise Mommy
Parenting is a difficult job because we are supposed to mold our children (to be polite, to be considerate, to not pee on the wall). But at the same time, we are supposed to let them develop into their own unique selves. These two contradictory ideas leave me confused a good chunk of the time.
On Dreams
Others achieve success; they are so happy; we can do it too one day; it could be us. It is so exciting! But, I thought to myself, I've heard this one before.
New School Year, Why Are You Trying to Kill Me?
Last month it seemed as though our entire house were hitched to the back of an old John Deere, being jostled along a rutted-out gravel road, hay and sticky kids poking out the sides, with everyone thinking the ride was great fun until we got off and realized that our backs were sore from the… Continue reading New School Year, Why Are You Trying to Kill Me?
Rewriting the Questions
This article, published in Hip Mama, tells the story of the day my oldest child asked me the BIG question, and what I realized in my attempt to answer it.
Amy Daniewicz 