The Daily Post Challenge for Valentine's Day was a good one - Write an ode to someone or something that you love. I love a good ode. I know I'm a few days late on this one, but I've been... Continue Reading →
What makes a "friend?" How do we stay in contact with them? We live in an age with "followers" on instagram, twitter, tumblr, Pinterest, and social media that require absolutely no personal knowledge of or physical, live contact with another... Continue Reading →
When you're a child, you spend most of your time drawing attention to yourself. From your parents, siblings, friends. I teach junior high, and the whole thing is one big competition. It's all "look at me and what I did!"... Continue Reading →
It's funny to think that man made up time. The way we organize it makes no sense - 60 seconds in a minute, 60 of those in an hour, 24 of those in a day, 7 of those in a... Continue Reading →
I like lists. I like lists a lot. I like making them and checking things off on them. I like Top Anything lists, too. And something about the end of the year makes us look back on the last 360... Continue Reading →
i've lived out of my parents' house for the better part of ten years, and think i do pretty well. but there are things that I completely fail at, and generally all the female roommates i have ever known fail at,... Continue Reading →
To try and help inspire writing, I am subscribed to a writing prompt that is delivered daily to my inbox. However, I have a terrible habit of reading emails on my phone and then never looking at them again. The... Continue Reading →
this morning I checked my stats, just chilling on my phone, checking me stats as I went pee (what kind of world do we live in where I take my cell phone to go pee? like i might get bored... Continue Reading →
My grandma is dead. It was a Saturday, around lunch time. (In my family, we tend to measure time by the meals, not the hours.) She looked like herself, just hooked to machines, and there was one that wouldn't stop beeping,... Continue Reading →
I'm old! I had me birthday last week...it was an extended celebration of great magnitude. Lemme splain. No, there is too much to splain. Lemme sum up. (Name that movie!) I had tickets to my favorite band of all time,... Continue Reading →
God is mysterious. But very wise. After Monday's post, lamenting all things life and my birthday, I wrote another post (hours and hours of typing) detailing all the weird things about me that might be so weird that no guys... Continue Reading →
Sunglasses Always Fit 