Filling Time: TwinLife Empty-Nesting
The next stage of TwinLife
Category: Cleaning
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It’s event season at work, which means the university schedule is on overdrive and work days spill into nights. I’m used to it; it’s been my life as an educator. But I had set an intention about a month ago to take back some of my time that I have so freely given to my…
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Last week I straddled the line between past and present in a way I wasn’t expecting. I started the week by attending the local high school’s baseball season home opener. The date had been on my radar for a while. I still follow the team’s social media, but even more than that, the change in…
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I opened the junk drawer looking for the back to the remote, which had gone missing in the week when my kids were home for spring break – overlapping for only 24 hours. I could barely get the drawer open, let alone look through it. It was completely overwhelming. I started dumping it all into…
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When I work alone, it takes two hours to deconstruct my house of Christmas decorations. This is always how I spend my time on New Year’s Day. It was not how I spent the bulk of my time last week, however. Though most people assume that professors get lots of time off–summer, fall, winter, and…
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When my daughter was home at Thanksgiving, she told me that she didn’t fit in her bed anymore. I was surprised because I thought she had already stopped growing (taller) even though I knew at the same time that she had grown so much since she had gone to college. It was a moment of…
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Last week started with laser focus on work. It was time for the accreditation site visit that we had been working over a year to accomplish successfully. I spent Monday and Tuesday on Zoom, being interviewed by the review team. Fortunately, our power didn’t go out until Thursday, when I was on Zoom in a…
Filling Time: TwinLife Empty-Nesting 