We Talked with Cherry Hill Voters. Here’s What They Had to Say. by Kate Delany The weather was not on our side when we set out to canvass voters in Cherry Hill. But we had a list of Cherry Hill Democrats and we were ready to have conversations. The sky did eventually open up but not before we had some meaningful exchanges…

My firstborn turned 15 today. While I’m having fun celebrating the amazing person my child is — so creative, kind, smart, and soulful — today I find myself also thinking back to where I was fifteen years ago. I don’t mean in a silly sitcom, going into labor scene. Kid…

A short, eclectic list to grow the brain grooves I guess by now it’s old news that regular reflections of gratitude, especially in writing, do good stuff to your brain. Neuroplasticity is a hell of a thing, a miracle really. …

I have an image of the wheel of the year on my dining room wall. It is, truthfully, a little smudged from all the times the kids have touched it to locate where in the year we currently are. This, I think, is what it means to practice a nature…

More Love, Less Autopilot: Reflections on Roles Versus Relationships I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the idea of roles versus relationships. Inevitably, our lives contain both. The concepts overlap, intersect, one might meld or develop into the other. But a truth life has recently taught me is that there’s a cost to pay if we don’t suss out…

How do you talk to yourself in times of crisis? How are you supposed to talk to yourself at those times? I’m finding that at middle age, I really don’t know the answer to this. …

This morning at 6 AM, I was out in my garden. I was almost sleep walking. I didn’t dress or drag a comb through my hair first. I didn’t even brush my teeth! I just went out back and got right to tending to the pumpkins. The urgency to get…

My fourteen year old recently announced the decision to go vegan. This was not really earth-shattering news in my house. I’ve been vegetarian my entire adult life. Once I left my parents’ house for college, I knew I was done eating meat. When I was still a teen at home…

This weekend, I tried to have a difficult but necessary conversation. The conversation was a failure. While that was sad and painful, it’s given me a lot to reflect on about how conversations could more effectively be had. Learning how best to connect to the world and others is (or…