Share Today my daughter left me at Kindergarten. She stepped forward, intuitively working the room, making introductions between new friends, negotiating what toys could be explored before morning meeting, finding a place for her posse on the carpet. Without me. Surpassing me. And I am left alone in my apartment, stretched out on my bed [...]
About Elizabeth Potts Weinstein
A Day in My Life.
Share People ask me how I do it all. The answer is … I don’t. But to really answer the question, here is how one day happened for me. It’s not a typical day – I don’t have typical days. Some days I work a lot more, some days I don’t have my daughter with [...]
a story of two pens
Share Can the right pen improve the quality of your life? I say yes. Here’s my story of two different pens. Now I ask you … what are you tolerating in your life? What’s just “good enough” but isn’t great? What little irritations are you putting up with … instead of getting what you actually [...]
Tactics of Transformation and Fire Station No. 1
Share Today, I am different. There is a calm. A grounding. An ability to see things how they are, not that which my worry imagines they could horribly metamorphosize. Not how they should have been if I had know better, if I was a good mother, if they had treated me right, if I could [...]
Fear or Fool
Share How many tears have I shed in the last week, the last month, the last three years? Tears of suffering from the harsh lies of the bitch in the corner. Tears of hopelessness, tears of trapped, tears of working, pushing, forcing, trying to make it happen so hard, for so long, so many times [...]
I'm Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, a writer, teacher, and coach.