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Unprepared for Battle
Dear Conscience, Today and tomorrow I’m spending all day at a conference. I’m tied and unprepared, and uneasy about having left my daughter with my husband before she completely recovered (though she’s doing better). I’ll try to be present and use the conference well. Not in the right mindset for it, but hopefully I’ll manage Continue reading
About Me
I got my first nickname when I was 4 years old. It was “bakitza”, which means ‘an old lady’. I’ve always been an old lady on the inside. And as I progress towards being an old lady on the outside too, I want to take control of this journey. To reach the full fledged bakitza level with a peace of mind I always associated with that life stage. I thought it would come on it’s own with age. But now I realize that I have to take control over the mess that my life currently is in order to be a thoroughly satisfied bakitza one day.
Becoming Bakitza 