Month: December 2020

Thank you for not ripping me apart in the comments. I’m sure many of you said nothing because you were so angry. I appreciate that. I recognize that I sho...

THIS POST HAS BEEN EDITED/UPDATED. I guess I should have expected that last post to generate an intense comment section. In the moment I was just trying to writ...

I mentioned in my last post that my cousin was getting together with her parents (both in their 70s) who flew in to visit them, and her brother and his wife, al...

I feel very lucky – as I did during Thanksgiving – that traveling to see extended family is not something we normally do during the holidays. We don...

Yesterday my principal texted us to tell us that a colleague’s husband had passed away unexpectedly. The colleague had surgery for a broken arm resulting from a...

I read a post recently and was shocked to learn that this person’s life is unfolding in very different ways than my own. In the spring most of us were und...

For some reason my break starts today (I have no idea why – we usually only get the Friday before when Christmas is earlier in the week). I might not unde...

I haven’t been showing up here much (although returning to posts from this time last year shows that I’m showing up more now than I did then). IR...

So I did end up going back and looking at posts from this time of year in 2019 and 2018, and you know what? I wasn’t that much happier back then. Maybe I ...