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View from day 47: pandemic papers

April 29, 2020 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Just as some food allergies can cause delayed reactions that are hard to place, so are all the weirdnesses caused by sheltering in place wreaking havoc on my children’s emotions and their abilities to self-regulate. Take today, for example, when my 9-year-old smashed her iPad down onto the dining table at 10:13 a.m., shattering her…

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Filed Under: The Arts Tagged With: challenges, home, parenting, priorities, schooling

How the Indigo Girls broke Facebook but soothed 60,000 hearts

March 21, 2020 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Less than a week into mass social distancing in response to the novel coronavirus, the Indigo Girls spent 90 minutes the evening of March 19 singing and telling stories to viewers in a generous online concert that brought together many of the people who would no longer be able to see the duo in person…

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Filed Under: The Arts Tagged With: community, connection, Indigo Girls, joy, legacy, music, social distancing

Fall into Winter (again)

December 17, 2019 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Although much has changed since this summer-fall recap post was originally written in December 2019, I’m backdating the post upon belated publication to reflect my reality at that time. —— When I look back on past Novembers when I did NaPoWriMo – National Poetry Writing Month – I love knowing that I found joy in…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, The Arts Tagged With: home, inspiration, nature, parenting, priorities, writing

Bright spots in spring

June 29, 2019 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Yoga on the Mall 2019 polaroid Jessica Claire Haney

Before the long days of summer parenting melt my brain, I want to capture some of the good that happened this spring. I wrote in late April about what life looked like in the first two months of my separation from my husband. Daily journaling for myself has become very important, but time capsules captured…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: art, community, mindfulness, music, spring, writing, yoga

EcoAction Author Event May 21

May 11, 2019 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I’m pleased to be a featured reader at the first EcoAction Author Night on May 21 in Arlington, Virginia. EcoAction Arlington, the event organizer, was formerly known as Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment (ACE). The organization celebrated 40 years last fall! I’m honored to be reading with Tara Campbell, author of TreeVolution, from which she…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, The Arts Tagged With: author, environment, inspiration, nature, reading, writing

What this spring brings

May 1, 2018 by Jessica Leave a Comment

After BlogHer Health, I did lots of thinking about purpose and passion, about time and transition, about mothering and more. The month of January stretched wide, like the mouth of an animal whose jaws seem to magically open to the horizon. I began using The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal and began understanding how…

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Recap: Inspiring BlogHer18 Health conference!

February 6, 2018 by Jessica 1 Comment

BlogHer18 Health, the first health-focused conference produced by BlogHer and SheKnows Media, was a terrific two days full of inspiring speakers, education and connection. To say that I’m glad I went is a profound understatement! It was terrific to be in a space with a shared language of health and wellness being spoken everywhere! I loved it! More…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: BlogHer, BlogHer18, community, connection, entrepreneurship, healing, health, inspiration, mental health, wellness

Busy spring!

May 5, 2017 by Jessica Leave a Comment

The first two weeks of May have been packed. The month started with a Clean Air Awareness event I helped to organize. It was successful and I hope will lead to more awareness about clean air habits, especially people turning off their cars while parked at school. That drives me crazy! The event went well…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: book, fatigue, mental health, novel, priorities, publication, self-care, sharing, volunteering, wellness, writing, writing mama, writing mother

Join me at Listen to Your Mother DC!

February 28, 2017 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be part of this year’s Listen to Your Mother DC cast! If you haven’t ever attended a LTYM performance, make this your year! It is, in fact, the final year of the program as it’s been done around the country with original stories in each city. It’s going to instead become a…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, The Arts Tagged With: community, connection, Listen to Your Mother, motherhood, narrative, sharing, stories, telling stories, voice, writing, writing mama, writing mother

Behind the scenes with Jennifer Robins of Predominantly Paleo

August 23, 2016 by Jessica Leave a Comment

It’s super exciting to watch a friend be as successful as Jennifer Robins of Predominantly Paleo blog and author of five cookbooks including the new Paleo Kids Cookbook that comes out on September 6. I met Jennifer when she came to a Holistic Moms meeting I organized with Stacy Toth of Paleo Parents as our…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: balance, blogger, family, health, inspiration, interview, Jennifer Robins, Paleo, Predominantly Paleo, priorities, work, working mom

Return to BlogU

July 3, 2016 by Jessica Leave a Comment

BlogU is a small and intimate conference that is both super practical and a lot of fun.  It’s local to the greater DC area, which is big for me since traveling is such an ordeal with my food and fatigue issues. And it’s economical, with the conference – including all sessions, keynotes and parties –…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, The Arts Tagged With: #BeYouWithBlogU, #BlogU16, award, BlogU, community, conference, education, learning, publishing, sharing, writing

What I’ve Been Up To!

May 12, 2016 by Jessica Leave a Comment

It was February the last time I wrote, in the wake of a Femworking meeting after which two members challenged me to think about what success means to me. Things have been moving a lot since then! I was also getting some coaching and working with a therapist, both of which helped me to integrate…

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Filed Under: Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: accoplishments, business, health, priorities, writing

What would “success” look like

February 4, 2016 by Jessica 5 Comments

Today I was challenged to define success. This was at the end of a networking meeting, and I was spinning my wheels about what I’m trying to achieve with Mindful Healthy Life vs. what seems realistically possible given the commitments I have to my health, to my family, and to my community. Well, that was…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: anxiety, calm, fiction, health, intention, joy, novel, parenting, priorities, working mother, writing, writing mother

How long can November possibly last?

November 25, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

For a short month, November has been really long. It feels like eons ago that I started this daily blogging thing, this getting up at 5 (or at least by 5:45) on school days to exercise and write. There have been two days off from school and now three this week and then boom, the…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, The Arts Tagged With: NaBloPoMo15

On the eve of finishing Harry Potter

November 24, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

In just 30 pages, I will have finished the epic that is the Harry Potter series. My son and I started it in July, a week after his cousin had read him a chapter at a beach cottage and two days before my son ended up breaking his leg. We did a lot of reading…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: creativity, culture, Harry Potter, imagination, mainstream, mainstream culture, reading, Shonda Rhimes, writing, writing mother

Chords and tears

November 22, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Today was a day of children singing and playing music, and a day of me crying. At the UU church where got married in 2002 and are these days, at best, sometimes-attendees, today was an all-welcome service designed around Sesame Street songs. I thought about going when I saw the email describing the service, and…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: crying, Einaudi, family, memory, music, nostalgia, piano, tears, U2

I have no words

November 21, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Today, I lost my keys. I lost patience. I lost hope. I am not yet sure what I gained. After looking unsuccessfully for my keys, at least I found this.

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: clouds, driving, loss, sunset, uncertainty

Interviewing a local leader – D.C.’s lil omm yoga studio owner Pleasance Silicki

November 20, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

My blog work today was to post an interview with a local – and national – leader in the children and family yoga scene here in Metro DC, Pleasance Silicki, owner of lil omm yoga studio. Mom of two Pleasance shared with me how she made the difficult decision to close her studio and how she…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: business, interview, leadership, yoga

You can’t splash in puddles if it doesn’t rain

November 19, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

At the last second, I changed my mind against picking my kids up from the bus in the car and instead grabbed the umbrellas and a jacket. It was warm. I figured they had probably not had recess, what with all the rain. The afternoon included a longer-than-normal piano lesson for my son during which…

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Filed Under: Featured, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: autumn, beauty, boots, color, fall, neighborhood, outdoors, puddles, rain, splashing, walking, weather

Slippage

November 18, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Whew, this month is kicking my behind. Or at least this week is. So much stuff to attend and cover, so much school stuff – all-day field trip Monday, two health committee meetings today. Business-building phone calls and interviews… Trying to build a team… I am waking early and exercising and writing. But I’m also…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: balance, blogging, business, health, priorities, writing

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