Really missing Zoey this week… From 6 years ago: Our baby girl Zoey died on Monday, December 15, 2014. She almost made it to 2015. So close. It was a privilege to have been a part of her journey and to have been her mom. We adopted her when she was three years old, a […]
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During this pandemic, I’ve definitely watched more movies–and really engaging series–at home than read books. So many options with cable/DirectTV, Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix, helping many of us cope. I love movies and movies are very intertwined with all my memories. Of growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, of college and of Peace […]
In August, out of the blue, I was invited by writer Julia Barnicle at Inviting Ease and Flow into Everyday Life to contribute to an ebook compilation she was putting together about some of the lessons writers have learned this year while living full lives during the COVID lockdown. I was super excited and said […]
Here in Chicago, daylight is shrinking and we’ve had a lot of grey days, as well as chilly weather. That combination in a normal year can make for a lot of moodiness. In this year of COVID, the issue is definitely magnified and I am seeing major moodiness in myself, as well as others. I’ve […]
So, I finally upgraded from my mom’s iPhone5 to an iPhone SE a couple of weeks ago. Not that big of deal, right? Wrong. I’ve had the same Chicago cell phone number for at least the past 19 years, but along with living in 7 or 8 different residences during this time, I’ve had a […]
Thursday, December 1, 2011 A beautiful, sunny, and warm New Orleans afternoon. A follow-up trip to the Diagnostic Imaging Services Center on Prytania Street in Uptown after my November 16th baseline mammogram screening had showed “grouped fine pleomorphic calcifications in the right breast.” I worked in the morning and went to my afternoon appointment by […]
I attended Northern Michigan University, located in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, for my undergraduate studies. It is a beautiful, yet isolated, place, within walking distance of Lake Superior, and because of its isolation, there was always a concerted effort while I attended to have a very strong student affairs program with lots of concerts, performances, movies, […]
This has definitely been the year of constant adjustments–to our expectations, relationships, employment situations, and understanding of time. Thanks to COVID, this Thanksgiving in the United States was markedly different than those in the past, that is for sure. I am grateful that I had a few extra days to decompress, eat yummy food, rest, […]
4 years ago, I wrote a post after the 2016 General Election, Sharing a Few Giggles. Yes, that election. The one where Democratic Candidate Hillary Clinton, the first American woman to win the nomination of a major political party and who won the popular vote (but not the Electoral College), lost to a man who […]
Hello! One of my daily class norms so far with teaching virtually this crazy school year, has been very old school: I say ‘hello’ and call roll. By this time in a usual school year, I know my students enough to take attendance by simply looking over my classroom and double checking a seating chart […]
