Author and editor
(you may know her as the editor of Joanna Goddard’s newsletter ) joins Sarah and Miranda to chat about how weirdly hard and wonderful it is to have hobbies as a mom, and the unique joy of being new (even bad!) at something. We get into such pressing questions as: What is “contaminated leisure time,” and how can we carve out ‘uncontaminated’ time to explore who we are beyond work and caregiving? If modern motherhood is defined by a sense of pressure to optimize our every decision, what does it mean to chase ‘beginners mind,’ uncertainty, and inefficient uses of time? Are our hobbies an expression of millennial economic dread, and an effort to detach our sense of self-regard from the capitalistic value systems that have left us in the lurch? Are we totally overthinking this? We also touch on: Kaitlyn’s amazing hair, Doggy Land, and Sarah’s recent swimming pool cannonball-ing achievements. Plus culture recs, moving as a mom (hard!), and more.This episode is sponsored by Freeya, a marketplace for free stuff.
Links
Follow Kaitlyn on Instagram
Kaitlyn Teer on Mountain Biking In New Motherhood
‘Popsicles Can’t Fix This New Heat’, Kaitlyn Teer over at Electric Lit
- , Joanna Goddard’s newsletter (edited by Kaitlyn!)
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World By Christian Cooper
Family-oriented family (brene brown pod— sarah can you add?)
The Joy Of Hobbies in Motherhood, with Kaitlyn Teer