Comments on: Friday miscellany: On the road

By: Janelle

Janelle — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 11:50:11 +0000

Just popping in to let you know I couldn’t listen to 168 hours because the voice just felt off, knowing how you speak! I much prefer the audiobooks you recorded and am glad to hear you’re recording this one.

By: Cate

Cate — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 08:55:55 +0000

Your own voice gets my vote too! All the best with your recording session. Also, I love the optimism of the Medium article, thank you. My youngest child is 14 now. He can walk or catch the train independently to all of his friends’ houses, school, and activities apart from sports fixtures, which my husband drives him to. So I have reached a new stage of parenting when I am no longer scrabbling to work out the kind of drop off and pick up logistics you are wrestling. It’s freeing and disconcerting at the same time, having more time and freedom plus the sense of time feeling more precious and the years ahead fewer, now that I am older than before starting my family. I love your perspective that there is still the possibility of new people to love and adventures to be had.

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:20:50 +0000

Laura, your Medium article is fantastic. Such a great perspective and I particularly love your point that there are likely more people out there who will love me in the future; I just haven’t met them yet. A profound, yet accessible, truth.

By: LauraK

LauraK — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 14:59:12 +0000

I love when authors read their books, and I like your reading voice 🙂 Looking forward to it!
Your schedule, down to the minute, makes me think about my relationship with time. For so long, I scheduled things tightly. (And I would get upset when things got off track.) I think it caused lots of fights with my son (6 yr old now), because he likes to dawdle and be silly and it drives me bananas when we have to be somewhere on time. So I’m trying to allow for more dawdling. Some days, he has to be to camp by 8 or 8:30 because the field trip bus leaves then (and if he misses it, that means no child care for the day), but on non field trip days or days when the bus leaves camp later, I try to be more chill… but then I get into the office late and the plan for the day doesn’t quite match up… I haven’t quite figured it out yet.