Long walks. Hyperventilating into a paper bag. Meditation. Locking yourself in the bathroom with the vent fan on high so no one can hear you…
where wildly different is perfectly normal
Category: Lifelong Learning
Despite the sultry temperatures outside, the calendar doesn’t lie and so this morning Jack hopped on the big yellow cracker box to start 7th grade. It…
If it’s February, it’s winter in Chicago, and I’m again suffering from a terminal case of AAS. It’s cold and dark (even when it’s sunny)…
And so the school year began. The boys are now back to whatever passes for school for them. J is into his first full week…
When you make a decision, it’s YES or NO in one form or another. When you don’t make a decision, or put it off so long…
Two students. Two similar scenarios. Student one: Young, talented musician. Plays the cello, piano, and oboe. Listens to music constantly, on the radio, streamed on…
In under a month I will be the mom of a teenager. I’m going to sit here and reread that sentence a couple thousand times…
Because reasons. Because reasons is now my go-to explanation for when life goes pear-shaped sideways and things don’t get done. It’s shorthand for “I am…
It’s that time of year again, friends, when you toddle on into a school, sit in a wee little chair with your knees in your…