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Cate Sweeney

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Pandemic Landscape

Yesterday I went into my closed library at the ghost town of City Hall. I was picking up my laptop for the telecommuting ahead. In all...

Intensive Care

Last Sunday Cormac came down with what seemed initially like a benign cold but an urgent care and 3 pediatrician appointments later, he...

Raw Material

I am making concerted efforts these days to stay connected to the Cate I was before I began growing with Cormac. It feels like all my...

Lightning

I am learning like lightning these days. Learning to loosen my grip on the perfect moments that are moving like a swift current and...

The Trail of our Ancestors

We both warned each other of our fatigue and poor training habits before heading out the door for a run together. Heading for trails when...

An Evening Believing Yo La Tengo

In this selfie, taken one year ago today, I can see the fatigue and nausea in my face. It is, in some ways, the last picture of Matt and...

My Friend the Leviathan

When I was pregnant with Cormac, but before I had told many people, I swam a mile alongside a Barton swimmer friend named Jamie Tout. I...

12 Years

T W E L V E years. Of all the things people told me, during this time that seems to welcome personal shares, I have to say that one thing...

Night Out

Matt's parents made a point to send us out for evening while they are in town visiting. With our anniversary next week, we decided we...

First Days Home as a Family of 3

Our first night home from the hospital we tried to split up the night into a bit of a care plan. Between an overnight labor process and...

Emotional Engorgement

They tell me it's hormones but how could one not feel an emotional engorgement about being acutely aware of the passage of time? When the...

(Not a) Mother's Day

I am not one of those women who grew up with a deep and longsuffering desire to become a mother. It wasn't something I felt entirely...

Delivery Story

Leading up to Cormac's birth, I was beginning to see the impending "labor and delivery" event much like an upcoming race but one that...

32 Weeks Growing a Texas Boy

They tell me it's been 32 weeks. It seems that is roughly the amount of growth and time it takes for me to not startle when I catch a...

Swimming through Springtime

Living in a place with such mild, subtle shoulder seasons can sometimes make you forget which time of year you are approaching. This...

Notes from a Labor and Delivery Class

Spent the better part of my day at an impressively overwhelming Labor and Delivery course offered at my clinic. Of course there were many...

Third Trimester Swim

It was a particularly humbling week athletically for me. So when I saw my friend Barak (capless on my right) already midway through his...

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