You May Be Feeling
Short essays exploring how you may be feeling these days.
Not so much what to do about those feelings.
But hopefully how to avoid the second arrow of judging them.
Season 2: The Mothering (Rational Tantrums)
Episodes released every Sunday (well, 3 out of 4).
You May Be Feeling
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If boys aren’t playing video games or eating, they’re up in your face. Hashtag not all boys. Fine. But I’m always trying to dream up quiet, sedentary, non-screen activities that my sons will do independently. A way for us to be around each other, but not actively engage. Or speak. Maybe that sounds awful. But winter is long. And my apartment is small. On a rare occasion I’ll catch us accidentally settling into a peaceful vision: my youngest drawing, eldest reading and me doing a puzzle. It feels like a scene from a Renaissance painting. Why can’t this be our life? I’ll wonder. And it lasts about as long as it takes me to ask.