Author: noemikjames

Thanks for the support and kind words on my last post. The issue was resolved to my satisfaction and I am not longer super stressed when I meet with that class....

On Wednesday I had a panic attack. During one of my zoom classes. Out of nowhere my heart rate spiked and I went pale. My vision was covered in spots and I coul...

In December I set up a surprise visit with my husband’s best friend. We met up at a playground in the East Bay and the kids played while the adults talked...

I wrote a really bummer post earlier this week. I’ve been struggling with a level of anxiety I am not used to and I haven’t been managing it very we...

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...