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Sometimes You Get What You Need

I’ve been spending a lot of time lately going through boxes and boxes AND BOXES of “sentimental items,” Those are the very last category of the Kon Mari method, for those who have read or watched Tidying Up. Marie says you should save this cateogry for last, because it’s the most difficult category to let…

How HighScope and This is Us Changed My Relationship with My Father

Part of the reason I love what I do for a living is that it gives me opportunities to continue learning.  If one is going to train other people, one must be trained.  As I learn more and more about quality early childhood experiences, I reflect and learn more about how my childhood made me…

Save Me San Francisco

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…

She’s Single Again

So, yeah.  Those couple posts there where I bragged about how wonderful my new special someone was?  The nail polish, the flowers, the walks in the great outdoors?  Mr. Wonderful dumped me a week ago. Let’s recap, shall we?  Remember last week?  The week in which I broke a car with my face?  Yep.  I also had…

Mani Monday: Orly Epix Review

Orly is one brand of nail polish I had never tried, but someone (who is quickly becoming one of my favorite people) gave me an Orly Epix polish and topcoat for my birthday.  I figured I’d share my first impression with you guys. Step 1 is called Orly Epix Flexible Color, and this shade is…

The Meadow Report

One of my favorite spiritual teachers these days is Mastin Kipp from TheDailyLove.com.  I subscribe to his emails, follow him on Facebook, and I recently read his book, The Daily Love:  Growing Into Grace. The book was really good, but just a bit too Jesusy for me.  His website and social media stuff are not Jesusy…