Tag: the balancing act

Pandemic journal: Month 8 (October)

Friendship heartache, preschool exhaustion, election anxiety.

Grief, rage, the occasional escape, apocalyptic sky, and finally podding after 3 months of planning

Wildfire season, parenting overwhelm, stress-baking.

Loneliness, anxiety, trying to be a person amidst all this.

I’ve just had so little interest in what’s not important to me, and so little patience or energy to equivocate.

I tried a different way of balancing my time with my kid, and my time as myself. It wasn't great.

It's getting harder to brain. And we're settling into a kind of routine, which is good and bad.