I want to engage my life. I want you to engage yours. And I am slowly grasping the truth that engagement is all about taking responsibility. The Choice In The Matrix, Morpheus offers Neo a choice: two pills. One will return him to his floating-in-the-goo existence where his whole life happens only in his...
Category: Engage: Mind
Recommended Chapter Books
Yesterday, I offered some suggestions for picture books we’ve loved. Today, we’ll move to chapter books. Obviously, we enjoy the usual: Harry Potter, Encyclopedia Brown, the Dogman series, and My Weird School books. The girls, in particular, have enjoyed the Puppy Place and Magic Tree House series as well. We’ve also enjoyed the Mrs....
My July Challenge
I have been away for a while. June was distracted. We had sports activities, back-to-back weeks of VBS, and the shift from school to summer. We spent a week at my sister’s house. We’ve enjoyed flexible bedtimes. Life has been lovely and chaotic and varied and together. But now it’s time to come back....
Who I Used To Be
Yesterday, I was doing a very January sort of thing. I was reorganizing files. I hauled all our files that have been in temporary file tubs (for five years) to the basement to put them into the filing cabinets that lived in the other garage (for five years) before Eric very helpfully moved them...
Engage Mind: I’m Not Sure About…
1. The backlash After Harvey Weinstein and the #metoo conversations started, the general consensus was that it was all good and right. We took strides to eradicate the kind of treatment and behavior that women have suffered beneath for, well, all of time. And I think the fall of Mr. Weinstein and the rise...