There’s this event at my school in which, for positive behavior, students can earn tickets to try and win the reward of giving a pie in the face to teachers willing to participate. I was more than willing to participate in this event, and I listed myself among the teachers ready to get messy. When… Continue reading No Pie in My Eye
I’m in a diner. Not a recreation anything, but a real honest to goodness, third generation owned and operated, hole in the wall diner. I’m sitting at the counter watching the cook prepare my omelette and potatoes fresh just for me, noticing the lack of intentional “good old days” vibe around. Most places like this… Continue reading Missing it
I have been so tempted to talk about 2017 as the worst year of my life. Occasionally, I’ve succumbed to that temptation. I’ve decided to consciously change that thinking. Husband and I did stay up until midnight. We didn’t go anywhere or do anything special, in fact we were only up so late because we… Continue reading Reflection
My journeys with the wound vacuum have been, at times, more than I could handle. To all of the lovelies who say I’ve been handling all of this cancer business with grace, I say you probably never saw me with my wound vac and you certainly never saw me on a bad day with it.… Continue reading Again
I’ve been seeing a lot of sad news in my social media feed lately. Of course there are the hurricanes and the state of our nation, and then there are the little stories about people being horrible to their children or pets, and while those are very upsetting they aren’t what’s been keeping me up… Continue reading Happily ever after
I can’t believe that I still get nervous before the first day of school. When I taught in the same building year after year, I was terrified the first year but only felt a flutter before the others. When the kids would come in the week before school started to drop off their things, I… Continue reading It’s what I do
Here I am again, and I cannot even remember the last time I wrote. I’ve been thinking about the blog a lot lately, and it turns out that it’s good for me. Writing my feelings, my thoughts, things which strike me as funny or heartbreaking, is a great way to process my emotions. It seems… Continue reading Back again
This morning I realized that it has been two years since our family drove away from Colorado to start over again. Two years. So much has happened in two years. Daughter is ten. She's about to begin fifth grade, and she's becoming a young woman. She has become a force on stage and an extraordinary… Continue reading Two years
It has been a while, hasn’t it? I haven’t been super depressed or anything like that, I just feel so busy. I don’t know why, but every time I have a busy day, the next day I’m simply exhausted and find myself falling asleep sort of constantly. I’ve got to shake this in the next… Continue reading Mind-full
I’ve been given the opportunity to experience and reflect on many different forms of grief lately. I’d like to say that I learned a lot, but I don’t know if I’m at the point of learning quite yet. What I can say for sure is that I don’t think grief is ever the same. I… Continue reading Learning about grief
Elephants in the Room 