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Not Blogging About My Job
I am struggling with wanting to write about my job, but also knowing that it is entirely inappropriate for me to write about my job in a public blog. Even if I changed names and details it feels like an invasion of privacy. It’s too bad, because the students, teachers, and staff at my school…
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Is it actual climate change or just anxiety?
I was recently looking at old photos of my kids, photos from back when they wore footy pajamas and built forts out of couch cushions and pulled all the water bottles out of the cabinet just for laughs. There was so much snow in so many of the pictures! Winter after winter, month after month…
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Dragging everyone else down with me
When I woke up this morning, my first thought was “fuck, I have to exercise.” I’m clawing my way back onto the exercise train this year, and it sucks. I do not care for exercise. I’ve established an elaborate reward system that involves gold star stickers and Chip and Dale-themed Disney pins and it’s still…
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Travel Anxiety
We booked our plane tickets for Japan. I am… not excited. I mean I am excited. I have always wanted to go to Japan, and I am especially excited for the Shinto shrines and the Buddhist temples and seeing the Pacific Ocean from the other side. Although I did some good traveling in my early…
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Books – 2024
Is anyone getting sick of these listicle-type blog posts I keep posting? I’m not. They are so easy to write! I read 44 books this year, falling well short of my 50-book goal. This is the second year in a row that I haven’t made my goal. Here are the best books I read in…