This is your city on smoke
Air quality in San Francisco is still dangerous. We can’t go outside. We can’t open our windows. It’s so strange to see the sun out and realiz...
Author: noemikjames
Shit, Meet Fan
Last night, the shit really hit the fan for me. I am now facing a reality I had always feared, but hoped I could avoid. I hate to be purposefully vague, and I p...
Red Sun Over the City
We came back to a Bay Area blanketed in smoke. The setting sun was blood red before it disappeared completely behind the wall gray wall, only to emerge again ri...
New Family Traditions
I worry sometimes that we don’t spend enough time creating and cultivating our own new family traditions, but instead work only to preserve favorite tradi...
Things I’m Loving Right Now
Despite the stress at work, and surrounding the PTA, there is much I am loving these days. Here are a few things that are making me happy. ~ Magnesium. Seriousl...
My Marriage These Days
I’ve been meaning to write about my marriage these days, because it’s in a good place, and as you all know, that isn’t always the case. The tr...
An email
The book fair is over today. I can’t wait until it’s all packed up and I walk out of that room until spring. Yesterday I had big plans to work out t...
On a Tuesday…
{I started this post yesterday, with the intention of posting it yesterday morning, but then life got in the way.} I took the day off today to set up the book f...
Recommendations Wanted
One of the reasons I’m so overwhelmed right now (and writing posts like yesterday’s) is because the whole president of the PTA thing is totally kick...
Why do I even try?
Sometimes it feels like, Why do I even try? Because no matter my intentions, or the steps I take to ensure something happens, life will intervene, and I end up ...