Author: noemikjames

This week was a hard one for me. I ended up being summoned for jury duty on Tuesday (in SF, you are on call for an entire week and every afternoon you have to c...

September was brutal this year. It felt very busy – lots of meetings and events. I suppose it always feels this way but this year it seemed to drag on for...

My grandmother passed away today. She was 93 and had severe dementia. We have all been waiting for her to slip away for so long – it’s been her time...

My husband is about to go away with friends to a music festival in Memphis from Tuesday to Sunday. It also happens to be book fair week at my daughter’s s...

As I mentioned last year, we found someone willing to be president of our PTA. This year I am vice-president, in hopes of helping the new president through her ...

The beginning of the school year is always busy and stressful for me, as both a teacher and parent. This year was especially so. This last week I had three Back...

I have mugs with pictures of both my kids: One of my daughter with various pictures I took in her first year and one with my son’s newborn photo shoot sho...

Today is my kids’ first day of school. My daughter is now a 4th grader and my son is in Kindergarten. And for the first time ever, they are AT THE SAME SC...