Anatomy of a marriage, Part 1
Recently, I discovered Cloud’s blog Wandering Scientist. I really like her writing; her thoughts on the election have echoed my own (the ones I can’...
Author: noemikjames
Small Lights in these Dark Days
I worked hard this week to implement some of those changes I posted about on Monday. It was a short week, and thankfully it felt it, so I’m not yet sure i...
Quarterly Goals
{Sorry for the weird formatting on this post. I spent way too long trying to fix it before I gave up and just let it have random line breaks here and there.} Go...
Not Invited
Yesterday there was an awkward moment at work during our staff lunch when one teacher (let’s call her A) mentioned to another teacher (we’ll call he...
An Issue, and Action Items
I’m falling back into an unfortunate cycle in which I spend all of the work week waiting desperately for the weekend and then I spend most of the weekend ...
Broken Record
I used to have things to say. I used to care so passionately about a topic that I was driven to get the words on the “page.” I used to publish post ...
Trying to figure it out
Today I hate my job. I’m trying hard to figure out why. In about a month we will start talking, as a school, about what next year will look like. There wi...
Lather. Rinse. Repeat. x3
There are a couple of less-than-helpful patterns I have identified in the past couple of weeks. These patterns are not only unproductive, they are also damaging...
Underwhelmed
As is always the case, my four days of break with the kids in school went by way too fast and I didn’t get nearly enough done. I’m been fighting bac...
Future Financial Goals
I am thinking a lot about the new year and the intentions I want to set. I’m toying with the idea of committing to some kind of shopping ban or spending f...