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Spring Emergence

May 10, 2022 by Jessica Leave a Comment

The past several months, I’ve had my head down focused on freelance writing & editing work, tutoring, and substitute teaching. Like many school districts, ours has a significant shortage of subs, and I felt compelled to take some days so that teachers don’t have to cover other classes during their planning time. It’s a little…

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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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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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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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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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Now appearing… in two new anthologies!

January 28, 2017 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I’m pleased to announce that I have work appearing in two new anthologies! Abundant Grace is an anthology of fiction by DC-area women writers. It was published in November 2016 by Paycock Press. My story, “Out of Scale,” comes from the novel I am writing. The story of my 2006 c-section birth appears in a new anthology, Birth…

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The highs and the lows of living full out in the world with chronic illness

July 4, 2016 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I felt so much stronger this year. My energy was better. I made it through that whole long spring time of Mercury Retrograde with nary a blip in my emotional mojo. Morning yoga was a regular thing, and I’d been walking or using the elliptical with some regularly. I had been making progress on my…

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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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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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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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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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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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Taking the message to heart

November 15, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I had a wonderful time this weekend at the National Kids Yoga Conference. But I did end up missing the last hour so that I could heed the advice of Leah Kalish of Move with Me Yoga Adventures: to take care of yourself before your To-Do list. Or, well, maybe I kind of mixed them…

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A day “off”

November 11, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Today my blog energy went to Mindful Healthy Life, where I finally got up a profile the local natural foods grocery store chain MOM’s Organic Market, on the almost-eve of its Arlington store grand opening as well as a gift card giveaway. But just to get out a little update on things around home: I…

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What I did today

November 10, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Today I did write before the kids got up, but nothing personal for here. So behold a partial accounting of my day. Today, I: wrote this play review about Hansel & Gretel put together this quick weekend preview of DC-area wellness events after some research, emails, texts and a phone call added this School Garden Meetup…

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Writing To-Do List: Making it Public for #NaBloPoMo

November 1, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Since the start of November means the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month), I feel the need to make my Writing – and my writing support – To-Do list public: for accountability and to show the whole picture. I have come to understand that I can’t just say I will write every…

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Family legacy ambivalence

April 14, 2015 by Jessica 11 Comments

Welcome to the April 2015 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Family History This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have shared stories, lore, and wisdom about family history. Please read to the end to find a list of…

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Grounding in fall

November 21, 2014 by Jessica Leave a Comment

This fall I have noticed the leaves without trying so hard and have immersed myself in a lot of interesting activities that seemed to land in my lap. I have been so many great talks and events, and I’ve wanted to write thoughtful and helpful recaps of all of them for my website, Mindful Healthy…

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Author Dav Pilkey shares history of learning challenges

August 30, 2014 by Jessica 1 Comment

A few hours ago, my eight-year-old son and I popped back on the Metro from the Library of Congress National Book Festival at the DC Convention Center after sampling just a fraction of what the event had to offer in this, its first year taking place inside. The key attraction that got us there by 11…

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