Tag: culture

• Lock Down and Slow Down

  

  I planned on journaling every day during our shelter in place, but that hasn’t happened. I also planned on cleaning out closets, handing each child a stack of great literature to read, and reading some myself…also has not happened. Like most things in life, my pandemic stage is not turning out as planned. I am…

  Melissa

  March 29, 2020

  Uncategorized

  anxiety, children, Coronovirus, COVID-19, culture, encouragement, friendship, health, lockdown, love, motherhood, parenthood, parenting, peace, raise them well, raising children, raising teenagers, raising teens, raising tweens, relationships, relax, safety, school, shelter in place, single mom, single mother, single motherhood, single parenting, slow down, stress, support, worry, write, writing

• Wanderlust

  

  I arrived in Ireland two days ago, along with my mother and my son. They are here to do family research and find the homes of some of our relatives who left many years ago to come to America. It’s been an emotional experience thus far. I came along to basically be their driver. (…

  Melissa

  May 28, 2016

  nostalgia, Uncategorized

  ancestors, atmosphere, cottages, culture, extrovert, foreign, genealogy, Ireland, mother, nature, open mind, senses, solitude, son, thoughts, travel, wanderlust