Dear Fellow Parent, It’s the Winter Solstice and I am wishing you a blessed solstice, today. Here, looking ahead to Christmas and the close of this year - a year like no other - I find I am feeling so much.  Wow.  I’s been a whopper.   But we made it through. We made...

When I became a mother, six years ago, there was one thing that really surprised me.  More than anything else.  I was surprised by how lonely I felt. There were so many other feelings, of course.  Joy, wonder, exhaustion, gratitude.  These feelings, I had expected.  I...

I’m with my kids at the Bay Area Discovery Museum.  It’s one of those perfect Sausalito spring days.  Crisp but not too chilly, breeze coming in off the water, birds wheel overhead. It’s been a challenging week.  My son has been up a lot in the night, so we’re all...

It goes by so fast.  We hear it all the time.  We say it to each other. “It goes by so fast” is a truth of parenting that we forget and remember, forget and remember. Forget during those long nights when we’re up every hour feeding our child.  Remember when we look...

Yesterday, while songleading, I had one of those moments that reminds me why I show up every day for this work, and how deeply this work can transform us. I was leading my women’s chorus Mothersong in singing a song by Paul Barton called “This Path I Walk.” The song...