I consider myself contemplative–one who thrives on time to ponder.  Multitasking isn’t so much my thing.  For this reason (and surely a hundred more), having a child and pursuing a beyond-home career are stretching me.  At the end of most days I feel it, that combination of exhaustion and reved-upness, where my mind is still trying to puzzle together the things I wanted to do today but will need to do tomorrow (or the next day) instead, while my body is saying ENOUGH.  EAT.  SLEEP.

In an attempt to get a handle on when to do what, and when to tell my mind enough already on trying to figure it out, compulsively, I have officially turned into the guy from About a Boy who has his days divided into units.  His life is way too empty, so our motivations are different, but you should see the weekly schedule I’ve created for myself.  All the non-childcare moments are divided into blocks.  I’m super excited about three projects, simultaneously, that all require huge amounts of time, so here’s me and my gangbusters looking way more like the drip, drip, drip (i.e. an hour during this naptime, two before bed) that look like nothing, but slowly, tenaciously, get canyons made.

This all is to say that for a few weeks, I’m closing up shop.  Here.  Not for good, but until I can get some marked headway made on these projects (and thus have units to spare).  One of them is a new blog, so if all goes well, you will hear much, much more of me after the break.  In a different venue, but one I think (hope) you’ll like.  I can’t wait.

So stay tuned, and take care of yourselves, and much, much love to all of you.

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