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learning to skateboard with kids, teaching failure, resilience, and perseverance

Learning to Fall: What Skateboarding is Teaching Us

I started skateboarding recently. In my 40s. I mean, I fooled around with a board in my teens and twenties, in someone’s cul-de-sac or cruising up and down the Mission Beach boardwalk. There were also the skateboard-keg shuttles in college…

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How Failure Led to a Better Life

Around the time my little one was three or four months old, I started failing at everything. Seriously. I could not get myself (or anything else, for that matter) together. And this failure might have been one of the better…

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Sustainable, Simple, Slow LivingHi, I’m Jess. I’m a crunchy mama of two little boys who are almost always outrunning me. I do my best to let them lead and to sit in stillness and watch them. Like most moms, I struggle daily with patience (it is the thing I work on the most). I also struggle with presence, and it is at the heart of slow motherhood. 

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