My wish for myself, and for you
October 13 is a very important date in my life. In recent years it’s become more significant because it’s the anniversary of my mom’s death. But for 71 years it’s been my dad’s birthday. I felt like this year I should take the day back from sadness to celebration. Most people who know me and…
Remember how I’m walking 1100 miles on my Peaceful Joyful & Free Trail? Yeah, I’m still doing that. I didn’t reach my original goal of finishing by my 45th birthday. In fact, I’m nearing my 47th, and I hit 695 miles today. I follow Cheryl Strayed on Instagram, and today she posted this. Apparently on…
That’s a clickbait-y title, but I really did. For a good reason. This morning my boss and I had to give a presentation to the board of the organization that funds us. We were both a bit nervous, but we were so full of success stories and excitement over what we’ve been able to accomplish…
I tend to be a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes we have to wait a long time to find out that reason, and sometimes not long at all. Some things we may never learn the reasons for in this lifetime. I recently found out one of my reasons, and I thought…
This morning I found myself somewhere I haven’t been in 17 years: Teaching in a public school classroom. A high school classroom. (Insert record scratch sound here. These kids I’m teaching probably don’t know what a record is.) My very first year out of college, in 1997, I taught junior high and high school in-school…
It’s been over a month since my trip, and a lot (A LOT) has happened since then, but this post is important to me, and I decided better late than never! (I’ll fill you in on the other stuff later. I promise.) So, as I’d said, I lived in San Francisco from about 5th grade…
I haven’t been here in a while. It’s pretty easy to slap up a happy go lucky blog post when things are going really great in my life, or when a nail polish goes horribly wrong. But most of the time I suppose life is a messy conglomeration of disastrously wrong and gloriously right mixed in…
I painted my nails this weekend with this, and I’m here to warn you about it. Just say no. It is the worst nail polish I’ve ever used in my life. It looks kind of cool in the bottle. Which is why I bought it. It seems like it would be kind of white, and it has holographic…
Thought I’d better post about some things, since it’s been a while, and I have news! Good news! Very soon I shall be the owner of only one house (and only one mortgage! Woot!). The work is finally done on the house that the renters destroyed, and it’s been on the market officially for about…
I got a nice surprise in the mail a few weeks ago, an Allure Beauty Box I didn’t order. I was puzzled as to how it happened, and I’m still not entirely sure. I got an email a couple days later saying I was selected to receive a free box. No more info than that. …