The Slow Year [My Word of the Year is…]

The Slow Year [My Word of the Year is…]

by | Dec 28, 2017 | Uncategorized

“Is next week tonight?”   Lucia asked, eager to replicate the midnight fireworks display of Christmas Eve (I told her it would again happen on New Year’s Eve — next week).   “Nope.” I said. “Tonight is tonight.”   And that’s as much of a metaphor...
Why Success Is Not a Dirty Word

Why Success Is Not a Dirty Word

by | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized

A few years ago a popular blogger and friend Shauna Niequist wrote an article called Stop Instagramming Your Perfect Life. It went viral because it resonated with us all. A few weeks ago, I wrote you a newsletter entitled, Everybody’s Off Living their Perfect Life and...
A Letter to the Worst Year of My Life

A Letter to the Worst Year of My Life

by | Jun 21, 2017 | Uncategorized

There has been a theme in the last year of my life, and it has gone like this:   Character: CLAIRE Diaz-Ortiz (Type A / Planner / INFJ / Enneagram 3) with desire to do all the things in the way she wants to do them. Action: CLAIRE plans all the things. Stage...
We Need a New Word for Busy

We Need a New Word for Busy

by | May 16, 2017 | Uncategorized

Oh hi. It’s Claire, author of a new book and mother of #3under3 who is traveling and speaking and writing and fighting with health insurance about preemie vaccines and cleaning up asking my husband to clean up the mess the neighbor’s dog makes of our trash...
My 2017 Word of the Year Is…

My 2017 Word of the Year Is…

by | Jan 4, 2017 | Uncategorized

Hello from twin central. After seven weeks in tne NICU, we brought our preemie twins home last week, and they’re growing like bean stalks as we speak. This year my end of the year goal-setting was a bit different than most, as I was full up in the craze of being...