Some marvelous things happened this week. One of my favorite parts about having a blog and sharing things online with friends (yes, I said FRIENDS) is that people read my words carefully and generally care for me. That’s a really nice thing to have in life anyway and I am blessed with some pretty fantastic [...]
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 [...]
Lately, my posts about education are getting more and more frequent. There is also, of course, the creeping in of posts about pregnant girls that lead naturally back to my own pregnant teen years. It’s hard to miss that the word “years” was plural. The more I do that the more I get questions (via [...]
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 [...]
First of all, can I please just mention that I am enjoying finding the time to write every day during the month of November but that it leaves little time to actually have the life I want to live and write about? Geez. It’s exhausting to just finally sit down at 9:53 to write after [...]
Today is a day when people are celebrating TWLOHA which is a rather funny looking acronym for the real name of the movement: To Write Love On Her Arms. It’s dedicated to helping those who struggle with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. People who struggle with that need to know so many things not the [...]
Let’s start with the facts: It was a school day. I was in my sophomore year. In general, life was pretty difficult. That’s everyone in high school, though. Right? Thinking back on it now I couldn’t possibly tell you what class I was in at the time. I couldn’t tell you what I was wearing [...]
This isn’t going to be a sad story. It just can’t be. But my only grandmother passed away last week. She was 91, lived a great long life, and there’s not a person in the world who could say a bad thing about her. After retiring from the school district for which she worked she [...]
Cross posted at Flawed But Authentic. Two teachers from my high school days made quite a difference for me. One of them was my English teacher. She introduced me to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and changed the way I felt about literature forever. For a while, I went around calling everyone Goody before their name [...]
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