Five days of Spirit Week, 120 screaming junior higher, 30 girls at vball tryouts, 11 making the team, a dozen rounds of Theraflu, and seventy billion cups of tea and cough drops later, my battle with influenza or malaria or... Continue Reading →
I am terrible at being sick. You know how they say nurses and doctors make the worst patients? Actually, their children do. I freely admit I am a large infant when I get sick. I'm emotional, I say weird things... Continue Reading →
I LOVE coaching! I had my first practice today...and my girls ROCK!!! They aren't the tallest, but seriously athletic, fast, and I love that they have such a positive attitude about everything. I'm really competitive (surprise) and I know they... Continue Reading →
When I worked for the Independent, I went "undercover" (not really but it sounds cooler) to audition for the "Real World," MTV's lovely display of humanity, and write a little expose article. They were coming through Santa Barbara and we... Continue Reading →
One of my sweetest sixth graders was so nervous about the tryouts, that she packed her own healthy lunch, with some whole wheat pasta in a thermos, so she would have the carbo-loading necessary to prepare herself properly for tryouts.... Continue Reading →
I've been exploring the facets and funnies of facebook lately. check out yesterday's post that has the first part of this list of different kinds of status updaters you might find on your friend list... the lush updater - punctuated... Continue Reading →
When Facebook first started, when I was like a sophomore in college or something, it was very basic. You had a profile with one picture, a few lines about yourself, where you went to school, your piles of friends, and... Continue Reading →
I made this resolution to get into the habit of blogging once a day, every day, for the entire year of 2011. There is something that seems magical about that number...2-0=1+1 or something maybe. It doesn't mean anything in pager... Continue Reading →
The year was 2004, the spring. I was a tree-hugging, protesting, politicized, hippie sophomore taking International Politics at UCSB. I remember when he walked in the door. He was wearing a tan coat, rocking a jewfro and four day stubble.... Continue Reading →
there has been this phenomenon lately on Facebook..."click on this link to discover who has been looking at your profile!" "I've had 4,534058 hits on my profile today, 53% from boys, 65% from girls!" (I am not a mathematician, btw.)... Continue Reading →
I love "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman." As somewhat of a joke, somewhat seriously, my sister bought me the entire series of "Dr. Quinn," on DVD for Christmas a few years ago. I remember watching this when I was younger...it was... Continue Reading →
I think I had a good day today. I was thinking a lot. And for some reason, I felt like I got interrupted a lot. It was long. They all feel long. When was the last time someone asked you how... Continue Reading →
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