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...
Author: noemikjames
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 ...
Finding Time
I have not been finding time to write here. I’m doing so much new stuff at work that I have to spend more time preparing than I used to. By the end of mos...
There’s Always Something
I ALWAYS work out three times a week. I can count on one hand the weeks I didn’t manage to work out three times in the past year. I think it may only be t...
When Friendships Cease to Serve
Recently a friend mentioned something about another friend, something that I had not been told. The first friend assumed our mutual friend had shared it with me...
Neither Here Nor There
Some random thoughts on a Thursday. ~ Finally, after five straight days of stifling weather, it’s below 80 in my house again. In fact, the coconut oil sol...
End of an era
When my daughter turned one, a family friend gave me a year-long membership to the Discovery Museum, a hands-on play space geared towards kids under 5. I spent ...
Breaking Records
Yesterday was the hottest day in San Francisco’s history, or at least in the 143 years they have been recording the temperature. It reached 108* in some p...
Where I’m at
So, we’re a week and a half into the new school year and I am still getting my ass handed to me every day at work. If it doesn’t get better, or I gu...
Rising Tides
When we were in San Diego we went to the beach one afternoon after my son’s nap. We didn’t get there until 4pm, but we figured we’d have a goo...