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Journal 2025

Barcelona Street Art - March 2025 in Barcelona

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Street art is such a bold and brave form, throwing it up there in the shared space, creating a comment or a decoration or a critique or a combination for the shared culture, the shared commute, the shared conversation. Vulnerable and free, open for everyone to enjoy or hate, ready for whatever. 

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Video Games: Fear, Curiosity, and the Art of Listening

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Most parents struggle with video games in one way or another. I hear this question all the time. Video games and "screen time" are some of the most talked-about themes in parenting conversations. Now, I am doing something about it. This is the first in a series on the subject. Join me for some basic thoughts and strategies on the subject.

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The Snapshots we don't take and the impressions they leave - March 2025 in Barcelona

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Barcelona wasn’t sunsets and music. It was rain—21 out of 23 days of it. It was getting sick, the dogs getting sick, and working on personal projects. It was also a marathon we didn’t run but felt deeply, long stubbern walks instead of Ubers and the metro, culinary adventures in a kitchen with a holy view.

It was working with what is, and enjoying the process. It was Real Life in the Dreamlife.

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Rewriting Motherhood: Do We Need New Stories?

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We live by the stories, we can imagine, we understand through the lens of eyes of heroes and victims and witches and kings and everyone else from the world of stories, we absorb through our lives. And I just realised, we REALLY need some new stories, or to re-tell some old ones. Do you know a good one?

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Finhan and Montauban: Focus in France February 2025

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In Finhan, where we live in February 2025, not much is happening. The church in the square strikes its hour, funnily enough, twice, so if you didn't quite remember to count the first time, you get another chance. Pretty nice. Pretty peaceful. Not even that to stress about. The pigeons take off poetically from the open bell tower, audibly flapping their wings across the usually completely blue sky, in the silence their shared wingbeats are a whisper of presence.

It's nice to just be.

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When Life Gives You Lemons - Journal January 2, 2025

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There is this saying about lemons: if life throws them at you, just make lemonade. But really?! To me, it sounds like bullshit. When life gives you lemons, deal with lemons.

Take a bite and let the aroma of the oils in the skin be a bit too much, the bitterness hard to process, and the acidic juice sting in the thin skin on the side of your mouth. Why would I make lemonade?

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