In the most recent episode of Kate Bowler’s Everything Happens podcast, the writer, mother and professor at Duke Divinity School has a wonderful conversation on the subject of “Being spread too thin” with fellow writer and mother Shauna Niequist. Shauna is the author Present Over Perfect (possibly the book I’ve gifted most often to girlfriends), among other, beautiful memoirs. Kate’s podcast is hands-down one of my favourites. It always has me pausing, going back, re-listening and reflecting for a long time afterwards. I don’t like to be too distracted when I’m listening to it, if that makes sense? I save it for when I’m doing something slow and methodical, like cooking (I’m hearing my husband laugh at this point. There’s nothing much methodical about me in the kitchen).