I thought I was doing ok. I thought I’d processed my BC well enough so that I wouldn’t find myself in total PTSD Land here in late December 2021. Nope. Instead, I’ve been spending the last part of 2021 remembering. Surgery postponed to tomorrow CaringBridge Post Dec 27, 2011 7:53am I was going to send […]
10 years ago this week, Terry and I headed north from New Orleans for a week long Thanksgiving break. We stopped in Memphis to celebrate our 7th anniversary, eating yummy food and listening to great music. We spent a few days in Chicago checking on our condo, visiting family and playing tourists… And we wrapped […]
The high point of 2021 for me, hands down, has been returning to the water with ROW and my Recovery on Water teammates. After a nearly 19 month extended indoor season of Zooming and Ergs, we were back in the boats again May 2nd and it has made a world of difference to return that […]
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 […]
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