Sitemap - 2023 - The Kettle with Meagan Francis
My 2024 word of the year is...Beans.
So-Slow Book Club, Week 2: "First birds" and the power of noticing
How to support writers in 2024
Yes, you ARE creative! With writer & creativity coach Amy Suardi
So-Slow Book Club Week 1: Winter's Consolations
Nordic wisdom for the coldest days of the year
Want to love winter? Borrow these Nordic ideas.
Announcing: An oh-so-slow book club.
Four handcrafted holiday projects
Easy holiday crafts you can still make before Christmas
How to keep walking (outdoors), all winter long
How to keep walking (outside), all winter long
The era of "doing for" my kids is winding down.
On messy French knots and my crummy Instagram brand
How to (re)establish a reading practice, plus book club chat with Amy Clark of the Book Gang Podcast
Writing about motherhood as childhood melts away
Why it's great to learn new things (plus, a pie crust tutorial)
Why it's worth trying (again) to learn a new skill
How to be a great host (it's simpler than it seems)
My morning oatmeal, and what it's reminding me about the tyranny of too much information
Embracing new holiday traditions with Kelle Hampton
What does the world need from us in a crisis?
My wild-woodsy-woman hair and what it says about who I'm becoming as I get older
The antidote to an angry algorithm
The privilege of paying attention to my body
In defense of the lukewarm take
The way things always were is not the way they'll always be
What "being in the driver's seat" looks like now
The underrated importance of 'white space'
An ode to my refrigerator menu board
On developing a relationship with my aging face
Want to stop scrolling? Start doing.
My youngest just started high school, and my life as a "school-kid mom" has totally changed.
My complicated relationship with other people's complicated relationships with food
I found my biological grandfather. Now what?
Desperately seeking sisu: On family, resilience, and the desire to know where we come from
"My 20something is my roommate," and other things I never thought I'd say
Family history, genealogy, and the complicated concept of "cycle-breaking"
How I'm trying to show my body love even when I don't like how it looks
Worrying about how I look is making me boring
Big ideas, human limitations, and the empty promises of automation and outsourcing
Parenting teens always feels a hot stove
Is it possible to live simply in midlife?
Hey, Hun: my multiple MLM failures and "what it takes" to succeed in multi-level marketing
Reinventing my relationship with food in midlife
On (not) taking my new husband's name...
What the fridge door says about family
My second-chance midlife wedding
All the emotions I felt while watching Michael J. Fox's "Still"