Wow! January was a handful! At school we had bomb threats, broken water mains, and inclement weather impacting five of our school days. Two days were no school days; one was a no student day; another was a delayed start; and one resulted in the school being evacuated while the bomb dogs could sniff the […]
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Winters haven’t traditionally been a time of transition for me. Most of my big moves came during the summer months. Starting and ending my Peace Corps experience, moving to and from Los Angeles, and moving to New Orleans were all done during the summer months. Winters, on the other hand, have been a time to […]
Last year, I was inspired by Philippa at Feisty Blue Gecko, Marie at Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer and AnneMarie at Chemobrainfog to create a 3 word mantra to help guide me through 2013. I liked my 3 words: agility, openness, and creativity and they were a surprisingly rewarding addition to my year. Looking back over […]
After spending nearly 2 weeks traveling in a wintry Michigan, ice is on my mind. I’m entering 2014 with some trepidation and I’m likening this concern to potentially encountering ice patches that are going to send me off in uncontrollable spins, that could wreck havoc to my life. Ice can be a scary thing. 5 […]
On my way back to New Orleans this summer, I made a quick stop in western Kentucky. I wanted to visit the cemetery where my grandparents are buried and check on the little town where my grandparents retired and where we used to visit when I was a kid. It was the first time I […]
Late-November 2004 On our way to our Stay-Elopement at the Cook County Courthouse, Downtown Chicago.
Carolyn Thomas of HeartSisters wrote a great piece yesterday entitled “I went from the driver’s seat of my life to the trunk” about the experience of confronting a life changing diagnosis. She writes of Jamia Crockett being diagnosed with Multiple Scleroisis in 2005: “In my life experience, being a ‘patient’ comes from a place of […]
com•pen•di•um [kuh m-pen-dee-uh m] noun, plural com•pen•di•ums, com•pen•di•a 1. a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatment: a compendium of medicine. 2. a summary, epitome, or abridgment. 3. a full list or inventory: a compendium of their complaints. Marie at Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer does a very cool Weekly […]
Off the top of my head, I can go through a list of women who were my ‘heroines’ from childhood: Annie Oakley Queen Elizabeth (the present) Amelia Earhart Elizabeth I Helen Keller Wonder Woman Isis The Bionic Woman Nancy Drew Trixie Belden Laura Ingalls Jo March Babe Didrickson Eleanor Roosevelt I either read a biography […]
I took my old copy of Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States into school a couple of weeks ago and the above document popped out. It was from high school and one of my amazing writing/reading/thinking/creating/living out loud English classes. It reads: WRITING WRITING WRITING WRITING RESEARCH DREAMING WALKING Study (research) a planet. […]
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