The Organized Middle

I told myself I would only answer one email before bed. It was straightforward, no big explanation needed. I started with “Hi,” and then decided I should give more background so they wouldn’t be confused later. That meant looking up an old thread, which meant scrolling through my inbox, which…

There is a moment near the end of anything big where time gets weird. The finish line is finally in sight, but instead of feeling closer, the last stretch feels longer than everything that came before it. You start counting in “lasts” instead of days: last assignment, last shift, last…

When I think about lessons learned, I always end up back at the first time I wiped out on my bike going down a hill that was too steep for me. I remember the rush of finally keeping up with the older kids, not really paying attention to anything except…

By Wednesday, my week already feels like an overdrawn bank account. The meetings I said yes to last month are colliding with the deadlines I promised to hit this week, and somehow everything wants my full attention at the same time. I catch myself dragging blocks around my calendar, trying…