• Things That Really Matter

    Flashback Friday I’m late posting today. It was a boring, but productive day at work. Not many people in the office, so I kept my air pods in most of the day and listened to my “random awesomeness” playlist. Let me just say, it was an eclectic mix of music that kept me motivated today.…

  • Grateful for Calm

    I had a hard time thinking what to write about today. I don’t have a theme for Thursday. This week hasn’t been very remarkable. We were out of work on Monday and Tuesday because of the snow. On Wednesday, the students weren’t there, but we were there two hours late. I spent my entire day…

  • Having a Conversation

    5Ws Wednesday What was it really like to have a conversation in different eras and generations? I forgot what made me think of this recently, but I think it’s a valid question for anybody really, no matter what generation you hail from. And I’m not even really talking about slang words and phrases. I mean,…

  • Undone and Unsettled

    Talk About it Tuesday Have you ever had an antsy kind of feeling? Where you feel unsettled? Maybe there’s a touch of anxiety mixed in. That’s how I was feeling last night because of things not “done”. There are various meanings of “done”. I was first bothered by our ongoing spare-bedroom-turned-creative-space project. We are almost…

  • Brave

    Music/movie Monday I was listening to my “inspirational” playlist in my car the other day. The song “Brave” by Sara Bareilles came up. This is one of the first songs I added to this playlist. The song came out in 2013 and even back then this song resonated with me. In fact, back then, it…

  • A Snowy Good Time

    “Something Good” Sunday And by something good, today, I mean something snowy. We were supposed to get a “bomb cyclone” of a snow storm yesterday in my state. It’s been super cold all week and the cold air was supposed to make it pure snow. And it did. For everybody east and west of my…

  • No, no! Not there!

    Last year when I answered this question, I didn’t have an answer. I reflected on the fact that I had already done the thing that I was most scared to do, which was quit my job of 19 years. And to do it, all it took was a phone call from my “mentor” where she…

  • Flashback Friday—But Not Mine

    With it being Flashback Friday, let me honor not a story from my past, but rather, the memory of past movies of this icon we lost today: Any child of the 80s and 90s knows Catherine O’Hara. Her most famous roles were Kate McCallister and Delia Deetz from “Home Alone” and “Beetlejuice” respectively. Though I…

  • Again?!

    I don’t have much for you all today. I guess I could dub today “Who woulda thunk it Thursday?” Because after the anxiety and prep for the ice storm last weekend, this is what my weather app looks like for this weekend: Within this snow storm, my area is forecast for 6-8 inches. Or so…

  • What do you believe?

    5Ws Wednesday I saw a post on Threads yesterday where someone was reflecting on their religious beliefs and how they have changed. They didn’t consider themselves an atheist according to the definition of one, but they also acknowledged that they didn’t really believe in a god anymore. That made me think of my own experience…