Issue 13: How to create an MVR

A Minimal Viable Routine to carry me through what feels like an especially unsettling time

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The beginning of the summer found me better prepared for, well… summer, than ever before. Work has been great since December and that’s a long streak, I know. Rumi had a massive developmental leap through kindergarten and I had a general sense that we were doing a pretty good job at parenting. I signed her up for summer camps as early as January and, to be honest, felt quite smug about that. I was so on top of things.