When Husband and I made all our crazy plans to move our family, neither of us had jobs to go to. We weren’t so much scared of having no work as we were scared of killing each other. Don’t get me wrong, we have a pretty fantastic relationship. I’ve written in the past about my… Continue reading Evening affirmations
The last year in my life has been full of change. I don’t manage change well in the best of times, and all of this change has been my own doing. I am have been uprooted and feeling a lack of balance which frightens me terribly. Living in the high mountains of Colorado I had… Continue reading I have a pink tree
When I got my first teaching job, I became friends with my teammate. She’s a wonderful woman, retired now, who never ceased to make me laugh. She has an interesting perspective on life which is very different from mine. Being ex-military her outlook is quite unique to me and I enjoy her immensely. I… Continue reading Getting in trouble
I’ve been excited to be seeing “old” friends from college in the past months, and I am over the moon to be continuing to do so in the coming weeks. It has been a great joy and I’ve remembered some moments (though I haven’t spoken of them aloud) that I hadn’t thought of in years.… Continue reading Fundamental Sameness
When Daughter was born we got a whole lot of advice. We listened to some, and we ignored some, and we found our balance and it was wonderful. There was also a whole lot of story telling from people peppered in with that advice. I get that now because I love to share stories and… Continue reading I didn’t drop the baby
Today I bring you a story I have not yet shared with anyone. It is one that is full of frustration and heartache for me, and I know you readers will understand. Parts of this tale have been shared, but never in its entirety and never all at once. Here we go! A few years… Continue reading When you’re the opposite of the success story
Lately I have found myself sadly focusing on the apparent inevitability of Daughter growing up, and it’s really been getting me down. Husband and I both have had some rude awakenings where she is concerned lately, and we’ve not been entirely good at handling them. From her changes in appearance and attitude to the questions… Continue reading They grow up
Have you ever noticed how songs seem perfectly innocuous until your child is singing the lyrics? They’re suddenly horribly suggestive and filthy and disgusting. When did the transformation take place? When did everything change? The same type of logic applies to movies that you’ve seen a dozen times, sometimes even as a kid. Out of… Continue reading Parent Eyes
“He told me that this time he knew because the Universe told him on the radio.”
A former teammate of mine had this theory about puns that I think is probably one of the smarter things I’ve ever heard. He meant it as a joke, I think, but I took it very seriously and have carried it with me for the past several years. His thinking was this: when we are… Continue reading Coincidence? I think not
Elephants in the Room 