I'm coming back from a slow burning breakdown. Trying to re-engage with the things I cut out in firefighting mode, focusing on keeping myself from heading in...
My daughter's friend broke my favorite pocket pen. We were in a diner. The two of them wanted to draw together on the table settings. They needed an extra pen. Yes, I shouldn't have done it. Even in the moment, I knew I shouldn't do it. Trust a kid with
When I was younger, I thought it seemed incredibly magical to lay back and watch the clouds go by. This followed me into my teens, though for much more "inte...
Tracy Durnell celebrates 20 years of blogging: A blog is a much nicer place to publish than social media, sparking fewer but more meaningful interactions. Blogging
It probably sounds obscure to write specifically about dining in open air in seoul, but when I conducted my own research prior to the trip it was challenging for me to find out what are the options...
We're coming up to a year since I started writing this blog wrote about my post , for example, and my post, gets the occasional click through after reachin...
It’s about time I turned this blog back to another aspect of parenting that I’ve thought a lot about. Yeah, yeah, I’ve been reading mommy blogs again. I’m not sure why, my kids are grown, so any ad…
Earlier this year, we went to Legoland California for a family trip. We were lucky enough to get a VIP tour of the build room, the place where designers and architects build the displays. Inside, t…
Subscribing to the blogs of people I follow on Mastodon
It’s no surprise to anyone that I prefer reading peoples’ long-form thoughts to tweets or pithy social media posts. Microblogging is interesting for quick, in-the-now
This is part 3 in a series about sensory sensitivities and atypical sensory processing. Read the other parts: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 ——- While atypical sensory filtering is relate…