Hello from NOLA! My last day of the 2024-5 school year was last Tuesday and Terry and I are kicking off my summer break–and Terry being done with prostate cancer treatment–with a quick visit to New Orleans. Terry and I lived here from 2009-2014, but we have only been back once, for a quick Jazz […]
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I’m re-listening to James Clear’s “Atomic Habits” for at least the 6th time and one of his reminders is to “just do something”—some action—to get you started in a progressive direction and then you can build on that momentum, those small habits, and before you know it, you’ve made some major progress in changing the […]
My Vanda is back in bloom!!! Blooming in the midst of the adversity of the past few years. It’s been two years since these beautiful buds last appeared around here. Very fitting and a reminder. 11 years ago, on December 1, 2011, a follow up mammogram and ultrasound left digital impressions of three masses on […]
It is Teacher Appreciation Week here in the US and after a 3rd school year where we have all been impacted in some form or fashion by COVID, the majority of teachers have very complicated feelings about our profession. I wrote this piece last year in honor of one of my most favorite teachers–someone who […]
This spring, it’s been kind of impossible not to do some remembering back to 2 years ago, during those early days of COVID Lockdown, when everything felt so unknown and we were all playing by the seats of our pants. What a crazy time! Here is one of those early posts. March 31, 2020 As […]
Back in the spring of 2013, I mentioned that thanks to my Lupron Depot shot every three months bringing on menopause, I was experiencing major night sweats and they were not only making me miserable, but they were enhancing my snoring. In turn, my snoring was driving Terry crazy. Over the years, he had tried […]
In late January 2020, I joined a number of my ROW teammates to train to become UCanRow2 indoor rowing coaches. The idea was that member coaches could take some of the weight off of the other ROW coaches (non-member) and increase our options. Little did any of us realize that within 2 months, 5 of […]
Have a penny, pick it up. All day long, you’ll have good luck. This was my 10th of the 52 blog posts I wrote in 2020 to celebrate my turning 52–and the first post to mention COVID. The weekend of March 13-15, 2020 was such an intense weekend of unknowns! Little did I know that […]
So, 2020, was not a meltdown year for me. It was challenging, don’t get me wrong, but just about everyone was going through COVID craziness and so I don’t look back on that year or 2021 as one of the lower points in my personal life. On the other hand, re-reading this post from March […]
“We must, we must, we must increase our bust.” from Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume Celebrating a visit to Second Act last week, where I picked up a new batch of bras and a prosthesis, here is a post from January 2020. Judy Blume was definitely a favorite writer of […]
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