About
For the mom behind the to-do list
Teacher, mom, reader — learning to go gently.
Hi, I’m Cheroka.
I spent years as a teacher — the kind who stayed late, over-prepared, and ran on the belief that doing more was the same as being enough.
Then I became a mom. And then, in the middle of the busiest season of my life, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. MS has a way of rewriting your relationship with time, energy, and the word “productive.”
Pace & Pages is what grew out of that. It’s a place about the woman, not the parenting tips — about rest without guilt, identity beyond caregiving, and the small, real things that give us back to ourselves.
What I believe
A few gentle values
- Rest is not a reward you earn. It’s a need you meet.
- You are allowed to move at your own pace.
- Small things count. Three pages count. A half-mile counts.
- You are more than the sum of what you do for everyone else.