overwhelm – callie daniels-howell

what to do with it

I’m horrible at being a researcher. I’m not actually horrible; I listen well during interviews and ask follow up questions and pay attention and write detailed field notes and, when I don’t procrastinate, I can transcribe an interview like nobody’s business. But when I’m on the wards with the child life health workers, in theContinueContinue reading “what to do with it”

a heavy heart desperate to return

Sometimes it feels overwhelming. Sometimes you can’t get the memory of that boy out of your head, his small body, which in mind is not so young, limp and alone in that dark room. Sometimes you cry for the wonderful giggling and sweet little girls who you laughed with as you realize how much theirContinueContinue reading “a heavy heart desperate to return”

reactions

First, let me say that I am sorry the posts are few – internet has been slow and the days have been full, such that it is rare that I am awake and functioning enough to write a blog after 9 pm. It is not because I have not wanted to write, in fact IContinueContinue reading “reactions”