Our fur baby, Zora, passed over to the other side on Wednesday. 100% border collie, always vying with her mamma as to who was in charge and on ‘her’ schedule. Such a beautiful girl, our panda bear and energizer bunny combined. Always ready for a walk, even if the vestibular disease that […]
My parents have always been the type to refinish, repurpose, and repair things. Picking up something from the curb on trash day, stripping and staining antiques, and repairing lamps or other appliances has always been their thing. I guess they passed that trait down to me, because readers of my blog may recognize that this […]
Funny. Like many of us, I was under the impression that once we were vaccinated up, we could un-pause these on-hold individual worlds of ours and things would move on, beyond COVID. Things are definitely not going quite the way many of us had hoped and I, for one, am trying to wrap my head […]
Before I left the condo this morning to walk the dogs, Terry asked me what my plans were for the day. I told him I planned to “putter around”. This is the first Saturday in weeks, in months, where I finally have time where I am not on a set schedule or have a major […]
Last year, I was introduced to the Barsch Learning Style Preference Inventory during a professional development, prior to COVID sending us into remote learning. It really resonated with me as an educator, a teacher who tries to reach as many of her students as possible by understanding where they are coming from; however, COVID kind […]
After 13 months, high school teachers in Chicago Public Schools finally returned to our buildings this past week. It was a rather unique, tumultuous start, where we returned to our physical classrooms on Monday and Tuesday to teach remotely and set up our classrooms for hybrid (with some schools hosting SAT exams on Tuesday), but […]
First Things First: A Vent About Feeling Old Here we go again. I take a mini retreat and don’t blog for 3 weeks, but when I return, everything is different. Yep, 6 months after forcing a new fangled way of creating blog posts–but keeping a Classic Editor function that we had the option of using […]
I’ve spent 7 years of my life so far living in areas that have plenty of experience dealing with multiple high and low intensity hurricanes. I lived on the island of Antigua from 1992-1994, one of the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean, a northeastern part of the Lesser Antilles chain, which has experienced numerous hurricanes […]
The past few weeks–and my last couple of blog posts–have been pretty heavy. However, today we are celebrating. It is a beautifully sunny morning and I am camped out on the front room chaise with jams playing in the background, my mom’s afghan keeping my feet warm, and Bleu keeping me company. I’m grateful that […]
This January has been an intense month, simply put, in my world. With all of the highs and lows, there has been a consistent middle ground feeling of ‘grey’ and ‘ugh’, a maddening frustration with this pandemic, and an almost overwhelming case of cabin fever. On top of everything else, my (self-diagnosed) Seasonal Affective Disorder […]
