Sometimes I wish I was a person content to float along through life. I suspect it would save me a significant number of hours of worry and stress and sleeplessness. But thanks to having a mother who died when I was 8 and a father who basically for the next 9 years shuffled me and [...]
I can’t be the only mom who thinks this
We have been together for over 8 years now. In that time, we’ve been able to establish two pretty solid traditions as a family…we clean on Friday afternoons when we get home from school and we go out to dinner on Friday nights as much as we can. We sometimes just get something to go, [...]
This sounds very attention-whoreish
but it’s not. Every week during our staff meeting, there are “celebrations.” It’s usually pretty routine stuff…students winning awards, teachers doing programs…and right now, the weekly announcements of who is leading this wellness challenge we’re having. Yes, I signed up for it. Yes, I win every week because I’m training for a marathon. I signed [...]
Today I (pretty much) got called a racist
And I was shaking angry about it. I teach in a school that is very…vanilla. In fact, for my final paper in my principal program, I renamed it Vanilla Valley High School. It’s also smack dab in the middle of engineer-land, so it’s full of students who are very affluent. This is a blessing, but [...]
I got to be that girl today
When I looked at my “book” to see what I had coming up this week, I knew today would be a bitch. I had a 7-miler on tap, my annual exam, taking Megan to the airport for a 3:45 flight, parent/teacher conferences for Meg, just a day with a bunch of STUFF. So instead of [...]
You know what I miss?
I miss girlfriends. I miss talking on the phone. I miss meeting up for drinks. I miss shopping. I miss gossip. I actually get jealous when I read about parties and happy hours on my facebook feed (not in a creepy, SWF way, people) I wish I had more time to cultivate those kinds of [...]
