Lauren Smith Brody

I have a feeling you have a lot of people who answer that question with, Laura, I took a walk.

But, like, I took the best walk of my freaking life.

Okay.

It's like a nap.

It's like a walk.

There are some good walks and amazing walks.

Okay.

There's some context that makes it make more sense.

So I had, this is last week.

My dad is very ill and lives far, my parents live far away.

I'm in New York, they're in Atlanta.

So a plane ride away.

But I've been trying to get home every, at least once a month for a couple of nights.

And I've had some, I was on Capitol Hill the week before that for my nonprofit.

I have work travel tomorrow for a fifth trimester.

So I'm just, I have like seven weeks in a row of travel.

And I don't want to give anything up of all the other things I'm doing because I need the income from my paid work and my children are teenagers and I'm having this feeling of this like window is closing.

Like they actually sometimes want to spend time with me and I'm like, yes, I'll drop everything to spend time.

So all of that is context to say Sunday night, Monday night, I was in Atlanta caring for my dad.

extremely heavy, but really, really fulfilling conversations.