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A bedtime meditation for sensory kids
Originally posted on emily en route:For those who don’t already know, I have two sons, one of whom is an official sensory kid, the other unofficial. While heightened intuition, innate wisdom and...
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New heights of connectedness (i just love trampoline puns)
My boys were off school Friday and because physical activity is their love language, we went to a giant warehouse filled with trampolines. We call these sorts of outings “Mommy-Charlie-Kippy Time” and,...
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Cool things I did while burning up with enterovirus this Thanksgiving
Over my Thanksgiving holiday, I was so sick I did a bunch of stuff I never ever do: I shivered with a high fever for two days. I lolled in satin pajamas and a fluffy robe for three days. No mascara. No...
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Part 1 – Context-free excerpts from my Vancouver trip journal
I had the chance to get away in November. Getting away is good for everyone, and I really needed it. My rock-solid friends, Amin and Gary, invited me to stay with them in Vancouver. And they gave me...
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Part 2: Context-free excerpts from my Vancouver journal
I had the chance to get away in November. Getting away is good for everyone, and I really needed it. My rock-solid friends, Amin and Gary, invited me to stay with them in Vancouver. And they gave me...
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Part 3: Vancouver trip journal. The Chief.
I had the chance to get away in November. I’m still posting from my travel journal. Following is Part 3 in a series of excerpts from the long weekend away. Let’s begin with the scene on the drive up...
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Pat yourself on the back
It’s January, the month when everything that fell under the soft, twinkly haze of the holidays is cast in the glaring light of the New Year, and acting all prickly. I’ve spoken with more than a handful...
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The looks of love
By the looks of things on social media, the love was flowing this Valentine’s Day. And, to my delight, Love (let’s capitalize it, shall we?) looked different for everyone. It wasn’t just flowers, a hot...
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New life
I’m pointing headfirst toward the bottom of a 45-degree incline. In other months, this is our local sledding hill, but today the slope is lush with grass and warm earth, which is getting stuck beneath...
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Excavating
“Oh my gosh, I love Sarah McLachlan!” you hear your 19-year-old self say from somewhere deep within your 35-year-old body. “I’d love to be your date! Thanks for inviting me.” Fast forward. The house...
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Mama does Lolla
You’ve never seen crowds like this. This is all new. You’re trying to make yourself as narrow as possible to sneak through a converging labyrinth of girls in high-waisted denim shorts and crop tops or...
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Uncoupled: The wedding anniversary
Note: My 10th wedding anniversary was last week. It was a hard, strange day. And a beautiful milestone. You’re 36 years old staring at the speaker in a conference room with two other people. Your...
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MCA + Emily En Route = BFF
Check out the increds holiday gift I just received… Merry Christmas, Emily! We re-posted your blog post from foreeeeeever ago on our very important and objectively awesome blog, MCA DNA. And we said...
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Just swimming in metaphors
You are suddenly a mermaid. Swathed in cloudy turquoise light, you dive down, down, down toward sand and tiny threads of seaweed growing from the bottom. Soaring through the water, for a second you are...
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Emerging, ready to share again
I haven’t written publicly in some time because—once again, and much differently than I might’ve drawn it up if I could’ve—I’ve been going through some stuff. So has almost everyone else I know (mad...
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All kinds of messy
Maybe my world has been a little too messy in the past year and a half. Too outlandish. Fast. Complicated. Out of the ordinary. Full of compartmentalizing, fear, prayer, stardust. Nonsensical. Raw....
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Let us pray
Tomorrow, we will act. Tonight, let us pray. Dear God, We pray for peace to blanket us, our nation, our children and the world. In the softness of this peace, first bring about an awareness of your...
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It’s been more than a year since I’ve posted a personal essay…and that’s about all I’m ready to tell about the kind of year it’s been. Emily En Route will resume regular posts soon, but for now, we...
View ArticleIt’s a break, not a breakup
My hair and I are taking a break. Am I sad about it? Yeah. Do I wish it didn’t have to be this way? I really do. What happened? I don’t know, I’ve been kinda busy lately, I guess, but I hope we work it...
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