by Shari Dragovich | Feb 10, 2018 | Faith, Mothering, These Days, Uncategorized
This week I had a difficult conversation (for me, anyway) with one of my children’s coaches. It was difficult for lots of reasons, but mostly it was difficult because I worked hard to stay fully in the moment—close to what I heard the coach saying. Close to my...
by Shari Dragovich | Feb 2, 2018 | These Days, Uncategorized
Over Christmas, on one of my multiple trips to Barnes & Noble to buy presents (no, not just for me), I happened upon a table overflowing with day calendars. You know the kind I’m talking about: those desk calendars you tear a page away every day, and are...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 19, 2018 | Faith, These Days, Uncategorized
Only hours (minutes?) into my New Year’s Resolution and I’m failing. Of course I am. Why would I think otherwise? Living present to the mundane is anything but natural. Anything but automatic. Eating healthy and exercising regularly is easier for me than noticing the...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 13, 2018 | Faith, These Days, Uncategorized
Well, then. Here we are. Out with the old, in with the new. Except it never cleans up quite so neatly, does it? Still. Long-limbs Lenore was on to something that New Year’s Eve in Times Square with Forrest and Captain Dan. “Don’t you just love New Year’s?” she says to...
by Shari Dragovich | Oct 4, 2017 | Faith, On Writing, Reviews, These Days, Uncategorized
Tomorrow morning I leave for Grand Rapids, MI for the Breathe writing conference. I am presenting two sessions—my first time presenting at a writing conference. I should be working on the final edits and notes for my second presentation. But instead, my eyes landed on...
by Shari Dragovich | Aug 29, 2017 | On Writing, These Days, Uncategorized
It’s been quiet in my little teeny corner of bloggy land. Which usually means my real life has been especially un-quiet. It’s been a heck of a summer. I… …graduated my oldest son from high school (notice “I” graduated him, as if he had nothing to do with the thing),...
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