Slow the Fuck Down

Slow the fuck down. This is my movement. Slow the fuck down. I have to tell myself this now. Mostly because I just don’t have the physical energy to keep up with my brain now, in my 50’s. But I used to. And I exhausted myself more than once doing […]

The Algonquin Hotel – pictures and the intro from the Unmotivated episode in print!

Check out today’s episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unmotivated-leaning-into-menopause-and-the-midlife-crisis/id1749381468?i=1000658787789 Hi! I’m Michelle Kennedy and this is real quick. A short cast featuring an essay…well, almost every day. I did not record an episode Monday or Tuesday because I was traveling. My husband’s birthday was last week and we got to go down to […]

5 Lessons I Learned from Living in My Car with My Kids

Previously published in Elephant Journal (2014) The street light over my car is keeping me awake. I toss and turn, trying to comfortably wrap myself around the gear shift in the front seat of my car while the kids sleep peacefully in the back of the station wagon. I sit […]