A Mantra for When You Feel Like You’re Not Doing Enough

What the pandemic taught me about pausing the Rube Goldberg machine of life

Nora McInerny
Forge
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3 min readDec 2, 2020

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Lately, my brain feels like a full sponge: Nothing else could possibly be absorbed, and most of the stuff already in it is just spilling out. (What a delicious visual, especially if your sponges are anything like the ones in our sink.) And yet…

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Nora McInerny
Forge
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Creator, Terrible thanks for Asking and Still Kickin. Author. Remarried Widow. Very tall.