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Thank you so very much for your warm embrace of my newfound love of all things audio! I am grateful for the supportive comments and e-mails I’ve received and smile every time I read that you are folding laundry and unloading your dishwashers while enjoying exhale. audio.
I wrote this piece in February, 2005 and it was published the following month in RI Family Magazine. (The audio is about 4 1/2 minutes long.)
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the mortgage payment :: audio | text
Happy weekend friends.
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I found my way to Jamie Martin’s beautiful blog, Steadymom.com, shortly after she launched it in December of 2008. As I followed along with her journey, I felt a connection with Jamie and the work she is doing — both in her home and in the world at large – and have enjoyed many inspiring e-mail exchanges with her over the past year.
It is my great pleasure to share my first exhale audio interview with Jamie Martin, author of Steady Days, creator of Steadymom.com, and mother of three beautiful little people.
The interview is about 45 minutes long so I divided it into two sections (aprox. 26 min. and aprox. 18 min.) in hopes of making it more convenient for you to listen to.
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jamie martin phone interview 1.30.10 : part one | part two
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Please keep in mind as you listen to this interview that this was my first time interviewing in this format. It is far from perfect. You’ll hear me awkwardly interrupt or talk over Jamie a few times (sorry Jamie!) and I most definitely need to find a way to get a better sound quality for future interviews. But I hope you will be able to look past the surface blemishes, because the content is rich and beautiful.
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Links to places and things discussed during our interview:
Moms Unplugged (Don’t waste time online)
Steady Moms’ 30-Minute Blog Challenge
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The Giveaway:
For a chance to win a signed copy of Jamie’s beautiful new book Steady Days, simply leave a comment here between now and Friday, Feb. 5 at 8 a.m. EST when I will close the comments and select a winner.
For a second chance to win, help spread the word about this interview and giveaway: Blog about it, tweet about it, link to it on facebook, e-mail your sister, tell your neighbor, share it with your playgroup. It’s all good!! Just be sure to come back here and leave a second comment telling us what you did to help spread the word.
Comments closed. I’ll be back later today to announce the winner!
Good Luck + thank you Jamie!
I wrote this piece in the summer of 2008 and have been wanting to share it with you in audio format since I read it last year during the Chicken Soup for the Soul: Power Moms book tour.
I have read bits and pieces of my work at writing workshops and during my yoga classes, but last May, at the library I grew up visiting as a child, was the first time I read I read one of my finished pieces from start to finish in front of an audience.
It was a powerful experience.
After I read, a mother I didn’t know came up to me with tears in her eyes and thanked me for speaking what she felt in her heart. She said I was very brave and she was very grateful.
A few minutes later another mother, this one older, perhaps even a grandmother, hugged me and said she remembers feeling all the things I described and that going back to work was the best decision she ever made for her family.
I share this with you today, as a gift to a dear friend, with whom I shared a powerful tear-filled phone call earlier this week. And for my beautiful Lilia Hope, who recently learned - with visible relief and excitement - that she can be a veterinarian and a mama when she grows up.
I hope you all had a lovely holiday.
We’re taking things slowly this week, enjoying some extra family time with Papa on vacation (and some very special couple time as we look forward to our first overnight trip without children since we became parents over five years ago).
I’ll be back to say hello later this week and look forward to returning to a more regular posting schedule next week.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy my second audio post. Still far from perfect — you’ll hear me struggle with Ps and Cs and stumble over more than a few words — but I’m having lots of fun revisiting these old essays and sharing them with you in this form and, as I often remind my children and my yoga students - practice makes progress.
I hope you enjoy…
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This piece was published in the Southern Rhode Island Newspapers in December, 2007. The photo is of my grandfather (Grandpapa to my children) holding the mixed-media collage I created as a gift for my mother.
the blessings of a simple christmas :: audio | text
I have been wanting for a very long time to add audio (and eventually video) to this space. But every time I try to do it I get hung up attempting to sort through technology that I don’t understand and it gets buried at the bottom of my to-do list.
Recently I have started to realize that there has been something more than just technology stopping me from doing this, that there was some other block.
When I finally sat down to honestly look at what was holding me back, it was quite simply fear. Fear of sounding silly. Fear of looking funny. Fear of having my words used in a way other than what I intended when I shared them.
On Friday I read (and watched) this post by Heather Allard at The Mogul Mom and I knew it was time for me to stretch out of my comfort zone and start putting my voice out there.
So here goes. My tender first step. It’s not perfect. There are starts and stops and awkward pauses. And mispronounced words. And it feels really uncomfortable for me to listen to it (like hearing your voice on an answering machine). But, inspired by Heather, I am going to share it anyway…
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This audio clip is of me reading a piece I wrote in 2006 for RI Family Magazine. To hear it (I hope – fingers crossed!) click on the link below.
