Butterfly Mind

Back in January, a friend at work pitched an idea on our internal watercooler blog: what if we start a creators club, with the end goal of presenting our work as an online exhibit? Before this h...

https://andreabadgley.blog/2024/04/24/a-little-painting/

Today I put the finishing touches on the project I’m submitting for an online art exhibition some of us are doing at work. In the final two weeks leading up to the deadline, I finally decided w...

https://andreabadgley.blog/2024/04/20/places-i-find-myself-on-the-internet/

Today is Saturday, and my husband is home. As I write, I smell the warm scent of bread he’s baking. I recently heard an idea to switch the end-of-day question from “How was your day?” to �...

https://andreabadgley.blog/2024/03/23/back-to-regular-life-with-sketches/

The snow flurries ended by lunch yesterday, and I spent the afternoon shoveling mulch. I completed the first full pile, the one blocking the garage. The front flower beds are (mostly) tidy now an...

https://andreabadgley.blog/2024/03/20/happy-equinox/

We had two truckloads of mulch delivered yesterday. A huge pile in the driveway blocks the garage. A second pile awaits me at the top of the hill out back. A bolt fell out of our wheelbarrow yest...

https://andreabadgley.blog/2024/03/19/snow-on-my-gardening-vacation/

A year ago, or at any time in my life really, if someone would have asked me to list the top ten places in the world I’d like to visit, Germany would not have been on that list. It never occurr...

https://andreabadgley.blog/2024/03/18/walking-in-frankfurt/

Last week, executive leaders from Automattic’s Happiness team met in Frankfurt, Germany, to improve our leadership and decision-making skills. Automattic is the company I work with, and Happine...

https://andreabadgley.blog/2024/03/16/responsibility-is-a-privilege/

I know what my motivations are not. In all my years of journaling I’ve rarely reread a journal entry. Journals from the past 20 years line my shelf. I can’t bear to get rid of them, but I als...

https://andreabadgley.blog/2024/02/17/motivations-for-keeping-a-journal/

In January, I set a timer for 10 minutes and drew what I wanted to do more of and less of in 2024. It was easy to fill out the More column. I’ve always got more I want to do and learn and exper...

https://andreabadgley.blog/2024/02/10/before-i-pick-up-my-phone/

In our nearly nine years in our house, I’ve killed a lot of grass. I wanted flower beds. So I smothered lawn with cardboard and dirt, and I transformed boring short grass into beds for herbs an...

https://andreabadgley.blog/2024/02/06/gardening-in-winter/