My wish for myself, and for you
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…
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 mean, unless you have to. I’m writing this post on Percocet. We shall see if it makes my writing better or worse. For science. Since you know I don’t do recreational drugs, that should be a clue that I’m not doing much better physically. In fact, since my last post, I’ve had another ER…
Well, you can’t blame (or credit) me for the election results, because I didn’t vote. This is the first election since I turned 18 in which I didn’t vote. Calm down. I had a good reason. I had every intention of voting, but the day’s events instead landed me in the hospital getting a blood transfusion. My…
When I started this blog, I went back and forth in my mind over whether to make it anonymous, thus allowing me to be brutally honest about anything and everything happening in my life, or whether to attach my real name and identifying details, and therefore have to be a bit more careful about what…
I haven’t been posting much lately, because my life has just been unbelievably hard for an unbelievably long time. Every time I sit down thinking I’ll post about my manicure or some other deep thoughts, I just don’t have the strength. But yesterday things took a definitive turn for the better in a variety of…
I love Oprah Winfrey. Most people either love her or hate her. There’s no in between. I’m firmly on the side of loving her. I subscribe to her magazine, and I watch several shows on OWN, her television channel. Super Soul Sunday is one of my favorite shows. I read books she recommends. (Well, most…