My sister is 40 today. It’s a milestone in our family because she’s the eldest of all us girls and I’ve been teasing her about turning 40 for the last two years. “You know, you actually turn 40 twice, Erin. Once when you turn 39 because all you can think is OHMYGOD I’M GONNA BE [...]
How can anyone who hasn’t seen the sun in days stop themselves from feeling blue? Or gray? Or from hurting the nearest kitten that comes close to their yard? I do not know. But it has made me Super Cranky which is like Super Superior but angrier and with clenched fists. It’s making me engage [...]
Over the last two years our family has gotten used to going back and forth between parents. It’s a testament to the passing of time that I’m even able to admit such a difficult thing because I know it is not the ideal situation. More than anything I’ve learned that co-parenting sometimes results in an [...]
This past week more than a few friends have reached out to me to ask how I feel about this new show on the CW called “Life Unexpected” and the last time this happened was when “Juno” came out. It is strange how I am the poster child in my circle for getting a measurement [...]
Here’s how this works: I pretend to be a real blogger who posts pictures, confesses to having my life in disarray thus making you feel better about whatever shortcomings you may have, and once in a while I do a giveaway. Isn’t that what all the cool kids are doing? (The un-cool kids do annoying [...]
Not long ago I shouted from the rooftops about a student who has just ripped open my chest, reached right into my heart, and grabbed ahold of my beating ticker. She is more than a thousand kinds of amazing. I get to have the luxury of complaining about my job, but I have a job [...]
This morning I got to sit in on an interview with a student for a story being written by a reporter after I, in what is far too normal, opened my mouth to talk about my students. It is an occurrence that happens often once you get me talking about education. There is no reason [...]
I’m embarrassed to admit something: I haven’t updated my laptop in a year. Yes. A whole year. That’s because I would try to do the normal, daily work things on it and I could function. I haven’t updated to the newest email for work. My iTunes was frigging ANCIENT and my version of Safari and [...]
If I have to look at Oscar Wildeโs face one more time with his taunting, strong jaw and piercing eyes that say, โWrite, damnit! Write!โ then I may as well just throw my Kindle against the wall. Itโs been collecting dust ever since I finished reading Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes 1 Tiny [...]
It must be weird to open your Google Reader and be all, “What? Is Mocha Momma writing again?” because you know how I do this, don’t you? When work starts up I’m all “Sorry, too busy!” with you guys and then I get a two week vacation and I’m all, “Dude. I have had so [...]
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