Sometimes my worlds collide and I’m not even paying attention when they do. Things will be happening, life will be moving on as it does, and then I stop for a brief moment to realize that it’s all really an amalgamation of the very same theme. When they fuse and I actually pause long enough [...]
Dear 20-Something Kelly, Well, now those teen years have really seemed to bite you in the ass, haven’t they? Here you are with a couple of kids already and you’re still trying to enjoy and figure out your 20s. What’s done is done. We won’t try to backtrack now. Not only will it do you [...]
Somewhere out there, in this vast universe of ours, there is a woman getting all the good karma possible. She must be stealing it from me because I can’t believe sometimes how it all just rains shits in my life. Something fantastic will happen and then it seems to stop, back up like a garbage [...]
Several weeks ago I was asked to be an adult participant at one of my former middle schools at their Challenge Day. I had dropped by the school a few weeks prior to Challenge Day and was asked if I would like to be a part of it. “What is it?” I asked the dean [...]
Sometimes, when things come out of my son’s mouth I am a little surprised. The normal teenage stuff doesn’t shock me. I hear that stuff all day long at work. He’s fifteen and he’s very good at it. He can’t help himself. Most of what he talks about anyway are things like Naruto and why [...]
Just when I think I can wrap my brain around the understanding that divorce is, in fact, here to stay then I get a call that it’s happening to someone else I know. Do you have any advice? No. I’m not expert at this. I barely get it myself. I just waded through some dark [...]
In celebration of the Chinese New Year Valentine’s Day I decided to stay completely OFFLINE for the weekend because I just about can’t even take the ridiculous amount of posts, pictures and updates that people write. I mean it, people. Some of you are downright jerks with all that noise. “Oh, I was spoiled rotten [...]
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 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 [...]
After spending a month writing a post (read: faking it at times with no more than a simple photo) every day I’ve come to the conclusion that I write differently now from when I began and it forces me to consider what’s changed during that time. Not only have I become lactose intolerant (thanks, Mr. [...]
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