Since I graduated from NSC, I have found that I haven’t been getting sick as often as I used to.  I believe the contributing factor of becoming ill a lot is stress. I had so much on my plate the last few years that it I wasn’t really taking care of myself.  I’d skip my vitamins, [...]

You know, there was a time when I would write everyday.  Then it dwindled down to a couple times a week, once a week, once a month… You get the drift. I am noticing that since I graduated from college, I have slowly become a procrastinator once more.  It is pretty pitiful, if you ask me.  What [...]

I came to the realization that I have really been slacking on my writing in 2010.  I really need to reel in the creativity and writing and overcome this procrastination. I know I work a full-time job.  Teaching does take a lot out of a person, especially when it is also an emotional commitment to get [...]

It is great to see people wanting to step and help those in dire need in the most disturbing and bleak times.  Whether those times are the current status of our harsh economic low points to natural disasters, people want to step up and help. People did it for Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit, as [...]

I have been such a bad blogger since I started working in my new classroom.  I have been so stressed in making sure the changes I have made stick with my students.  Needless to say, when I get home, all I want to do is veg. Well, that will change for the second semester of the [...]

At least from the whirlwind that I have stirred up from transferring over to a school where I am traveling about 40 miles round trip each day.  A little more mileage and gas than we wanted to spend on, but well worth it in my eyes. Mommy duties are starting to settle into their routine.  I [...]

James Frey’s memoir of drug addition and recovery was a bestseller even before Oprah Winfrey picked it for her book club in 2005, but the subsequent revelations about discrepancies between the story and the author?s real life touched off a national debate about the line between fact and fiction. Filled with graphic scenes of epic [...]

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian meets Desperate Housewives in this exploration of the booming business of Russian e-mail-order brides, an industry where love and marriage collide with sex and commerce. Odessa, Ukraine, is the humor capital of the former Soviet Union, but in an upside-down world where waiters earn more than doctors and [...]

That is the best way I can take this whole new role, or should I say blow, that has been dealt to me. I will be brutally honest here.  I have been completely depressed this last week since I haven’t had to report everyday to the same classroom.  In other words, I have been completely depressed [...]

I have to say it, I cannot deny it.  I enjoy working. Don’t get me wrong, I loved being home with Michael today.  I loved that I didn’t have to wake up so early to get the kids and I up and out the door to make it to work on time.  I even liked being [...]