The Cost
It can be hard to quantify how much mental health struggles cost us. Between the shame, and the guilt–not the mention the stigma, and the judgment–t...
Author: noemikjames
Enough
At our school district, it usually takes the entire academic year for the negotiations team and the district to agree on a salary. When that happens, we are pai...
Decluttering Without Regret
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, but Mel’s post yesterday prompted me to finally do it. I was going to comment on her site but rea...
The Two Week Wait
On Friday, March 13th, San Francisco Unified School District sends out placement announcements for the 2015-2016 school year. We should be getting ours in the m...
The Lows
I am someone who is continually cycling through highs and lows. My highs are generally pretty awesome. I feel great. I am super productive. The possibilities se...
Mutually Exclusive
A lot of the articles I read about parenting insist on two imperative objectives: (1) parents taking care of themselves, so they will have the internal resource...
Closed Doors
I have made some mistakes in my blogging days. Big mistakes. Massive mistakes. Irreparable mistakes. There were women, women that I considered close, women that...
Introverts Among Us
I almost skipped the chapter in Raising your Spirited Child about extroversion and introversion. I am such a classic extrovert, constantly talking, riding an am...
I Don’t Know How
I’ve been really down this past week, stuck in a low, low funk. I thought it was my period, which took it’s sweet time showing up, and made me an aw...
Toddlerdom, Take Two
My son is 16 months old today, and he’s officially entered toddlerhood. He is finally walking (ahem, toddling) everywhere, but that isn’t why I know...