The age-old parental question: what to do when your kid won't go?
To the Mom with the Screaming Kid
The age-old parental question: what to do when your kid won't go?
Tag: LIFE LESSONS
Adventure + Kids?
Friends with kids are having major adventures around the world. But what about all the benefits to stability?
Following Your Passion
What is your passion? Is that an easy question for you to answer? Do you feel that everyone has a passion? What does it mean if you don't know what yours is? Or do you have the opposite problem—do you feel like you have so many pursuits that you feel lost? Austin blogger Jenni from… Continue reading Following Your Passion
Inspired: Alice Walker’s Forgiveness
I was blown away by Alice Walker's simple words of forgiveness, and I wanted to share them here.
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.
A Note to My Teenage Self
With 40 (and my twenty-year high school reunion) on my horizon, there are a few things, once outside my field of vision entirely, that are starting to come into focus. But then, some stuff will just never make sense.
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.
Running Scared
Apart from my husband and kids, not a single part of my adult life has ever come close to feeling as right as the time I spent working on that book. So why, oh why, did the words go away? And will they ever come back?
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.
Amy Daniewicz 