Role Reboot

How Motherhood Broke My Addiction To Being Busy

In the life of an over-doer, parenthood is a kind of torture therapy. You get over yourself by having no time for yourself. At the height of my most successful period as a young writer in my 20s, I was also at my most miserable. I hosted a weekly literary reading series in the red-hued […]

No One Wins The Race To Be The Busiest

I tried to kill my feeling of emptiness and perpetual worthlessness with a busy schedule, with excess, with needless indulgences until eventually I became a burned-out, emotional ragged adult.  I was elbow-deep in avocados on a quest to find the perfectly soft, ripe avocado for guacamole, which is basically impossible in early spring in North […]