Life Unoptimized
Rachel WardHolding on to adventure, style, and ease in modern motherhood.
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5 Little Things Making Life Fuller Right Now
Every month or so, I share five things that are bringing me joy, taking the pressure off, or just making life more interesting. I hope you find something here that’s useful, relatable, or at least entertaining.
1. Toilet Paper Tube C...
A Plan to Unapologetically Romanticize Fall for All It’s Worth
I make a list at the beginning of each new season, a collection of activities to punctuate the coming months. This started sometime after I read about Japan’s 72 microseasons, including “bush warblers start singing in the mountains.”
I’m p...
The Inconvenient, Thankless Weekend Tradition That I Keep Insisting on
I’m leaning over the seat of a weathered picnic table, scrubbing mustard and baked bean residue off blue tin plates. My 6-year-old has designated herself the rinser. As she works, water splashes on our feet from a pair of gallon-sized orang...
I Wanted to Be a Copenhagen Mom
I gaped at a Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy lookalike whizzing by on a bike, pedaling hands-free while eating a bowl of muesli with a spoon. It was 8 a.m. in Copenhagen.
A few weeks earlier in San Diego, my husband and I had bought a pair of e-...
Hosting a Low-Effort Block Party Might Change Everything
Four years ago, everyone on our street was a stranger. Now my 6-year-old knows where to knock for a limitless supply of fizzy water or Taylor Swift records.
Before we bought our first house, my husband and I lived in a three-unit apartment...
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Questioning the mainstream motherhood script of consuming, rushing, and settling. Former magazine editor into home exchange, dressing up, cargo biking, and getting the kids outside.
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