Month: May 2020
Squandering the opportunity
I’ve read enough articles with subtle, and less subtle, and straight up overt, messaging that I should take advantage of this upending of my life as an op...
Chameleon
Yesterday afternoon my husband and daughter were in the backyard getting some fresh air. My husband was cutting big branches from the trees that are pushing ove...
Start of week 8
Mothers Day ended up being quite nice. I didn’t get up until 9:30, at which point my kids came down with cards and breakfast for me in bed. They also had ...
Appreciating Myself
This week was national Teacher Appreciation Week and Sunday is Mother’s Day. And while I made sure my kids made their teachers digital cards, and I sent t...
Stepping away from the news cycle
I was going to come here a couple nights ago and say, hey, it’s been a while since I cried. It’s been a while since I’ve felt totally overwhel...
An early start to the school year?
This week, while about half of the states in the nations began to tentatively reopen their economies, California extended its shelter-in-place order through the...