I am not what you would call a graceful person. I fall down a lot. I bump into things. I trip. I stumble. I spill food. I drop things. I break stuff. Not only is this a general crummy situation, but I never have cool injury stories. I’m generally surrounded by wonderful empathetic humans who… Continue reading A distressing lack of grace
I’m a little interested in the cool and weird facts about animals. Daughter and Husband are completely fascinated by them so, I hear about animals quite a lot. Either a small voice or a much bigger voice will tell me, with equal enthusiasm, “Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!! Did you know…?” What follows will inevitably be bizarre… Continue reading Be the shrimp
The school in which I worked required the teachers to do conferences twice a year. Once I was able to overcome my crippling social anxieties around the entire process, I actually started to look forward to these meetings. They were utterly exhausting, a flurry of activity, sometimes really upsetting for the child or the parent… Continue reading “Like” isn’t blind
As a classroom teacher, something that I found really important about my job was the tiny part known as “character education.” In this minuscule area of teaching we were to help kids learn not only how to make good decisions and avoid peer pressure, but how to grow up and essentially be positive and helpful… Continue reading No offense, but…
I don’t really make New Year’s resolutions. As a fat person, everyone always just expects me to want to lose weight as a resolution, and I find it disappointing. I am terrible about other things, too! I have lots of areas to improve upon, but no one focuses on those. Oh well. Still, this new… Continue reading Universality
I just made a short (now, thankfully) journey to my mother’s home to help care for her after her second mastectomy. It is a pretty surreal experience to turn the tables and be on the other side of everything with a parent. I held her hand and spoke with her for a while as she was… Continue reading How do we know when
Here I go again, complaining. I know, other people’s complaints are a waste of your time. Go ahead. Ignore me. I don’t mind. I won’t even lay the guilt on you. People leave all the time… 🙂 It’s the holiday season and I am still looking for a real job. Husband has an interview this… Continue reading At least I’ve got options
One of my favorite things to gripe about as an adult is how hard it is to be an adult. It’s hard to work, pay bills, change jobs, make friends, raise kids, blah, blah blah. It’s a common complaint, really, and it is 100% true. Seriously, google “hard to be an adult” and see what… Continue reading Personing is hard
There are so many things that I miss about being an elementary school teacher. Halloween just passed by, and I remember the day with fondness. I loved creating the most engaging lessons for whatever topic we were studying to make sure my kids were engaged the whole week, no matter which day the holiday fell… Continue reading “Nope, not pregnant. Just fat,” and other things I don’t say anymore now that I’m not a teacher.
Wow. Stress. If you’ve been following this blog (I think there are three or so of you!) you know a few things. 1: I have been writing about the prospect of changing carrers/moving across country/etc. 2: There has not been a new post in a while. Reason for number two is heavily reliant on the fact… Continue reading Arrgghhhhhh!
Elephants in the Room 