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My #WordOfTheYear for 2023 is “touchdown.” It was inspired by an episode of Katherine May‘s “Wintering” podcast (retitled “How We Live Now”), in which she interviews writer Tanya Shadrick. As a non sports fan, it‘s a curious choice for me…but multiple meanings abound.

I may be starting an online blog in the New Year (as early as tomorrow!). The outline for my first journal entry, which exists in my brain & nowhere else, is about exactly this.

It took a while to warm up to this but I loved the latter parts where she details how she started to take risks in life. Tanya has a near death experience after becoming a mother & I thought it was to be a book on motherhood but it was the opposite-she barely writes about being a parent, but about her life away from that; her creative, artistic life. Poetically written but this made me feel disconnected from it at times. An inspiring read though.

Just me and Naomi today so I can read while she sleeps 💕

I‘m liking this book but at the same time it feels like it‘s taking a while to get going. I do sometimes find that with memoirs though.

Both kids have napped together for 3 days in a row 🤯 priority is obviously reading over housework 😂