“If you’re open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you’re defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer. Read More »

Proudly rocking my beautiful curls! Hair. It seems such a simple thing. For men, it is. Get it cut when it gets too long, wash it, comb it…done. Even easier for guys who shave their heads or buzz their hair. The only time men really worry about hair is when they’re losing it. Other than that, they couldn’t care less. Read More »

Negativity. In so many ways, it surrounds us every day. It is so easy to fall into the negativity that surrounds us, to be caught up in the poor attitudes of the people that don’t even know you and yet will try to drag you down anyway. Well, I’ve decided that I’m putting a stop to it, at least in my life. Read More »

What with getting ready for the school year and then actually teaching (9 separate classes – I challenge anyone who thinks Special Ed teachers sit around all day and let students play games to come do my job for a day), I haven’t been reading as much as I’d like. Read More »

Or, a la Peter Griffin on Family Guys, Thing That Grind My Gears. 1. Anyone who wears or has anything Christian Audigier, Ed Hardy, Affliction or Tap Out.  You just look like a douchebag. 2. Teenage boys who wear skinny jeans and sag them – pick one or the other chief, but you can’t do both. Read More »

People think that, if they put on the facade they want the world to see, that no one will see their true character. Well, guess what folks? That isn’t the truth. Read More »

Tonight is a colossal night in American history.  Tonight it has been announced that we have finally captured and killed Osama Bin Laden.  This is a night that most of us have waited for ever since 9/11/2011.  I, like many others, thought that we would never capture this man alive. Read More »

As I write this tonight, my heart is breaking for the Fogel family that was cruelly shattered last night.  The fact that two parents and three children had their lives coldly ripped away from them, leaving three children orphaned is so sad that I barely have words for it. Read More »

In honor of the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day I will be inaugurating a new series of posts entitled “ Is Not a Dirty Word”, starting with this one entitled Feminism Is Not a Dirty Word.  I feel like when a woman identifies herself as a feminist, that people automatically think that she’s a man-hating power bitch. Read More »

Wow.  I cannot believe it’s March already.  I really can’t.  I really have been meaning to blog more and I have all these things that I want to blog about but time has just not been something I have much of lately. Read More »

Just wanted to give all my loyal readers (har har) a little update on my life.  I know I have put out there the concept of online dating and its place in my life, so I wanted to give you an update. Read More »

I knew I didn’t like Mondays.  I wish we could just skip right over Monday and go to Tuesday…but then Tuesday would be like Monday and the cycle would perpetuate itself.  Augh. Read More »

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” Corinthians 13: 4-7 . Read More »

These days, I rarely walk into my job with a sense of foreboding (in the past I had a job that was so awful that I would literally have to drag myself into the building in the morning).  This morning, however, I had a slight feeling of unease floating in my stomach. Read More »

1. We look forward to No School days even more than the kids. 2. When it starts snowing, we get more excited at the prospect of being sent home early than the kids. 3. There is such a thing as a stupid question. 4. There are some kids we just plain don’t like. 5. Every teacher occasionally wants to tell kids to just shut up. 6. Read More »

Here we are once again at the end of one year and the beginning of another.  We all know what that means – it’s time to decide on a new set of New Year’s Resolutions.  I would usually want to do a roundup of the past year, but 2010 was, for the most part, the absolute worst year of my life – bar none. Read More »

Online dating.  Depending on who you ask, it’s either the best thing to hit the internet in years or it’s the dumbest thing ever.  I’m definitely a member of the first group.  I think internet dating has changed the face of relationships for the better. Read More »

So, in an effort to blog more in the coming year, I will be participating in WordPress’s Post A Week in 2011.  Hopefully this will inspire me to write more! . Read More »

Sometimes there are pieces of writing which touch our lives profoundly.  This poem is one of them.  Before you say anything, I know it is a Christian poem, but seeing as how the only references are to the Lord, I feel it’s appropriate.  Personally, I feel that in this case, which religion it was written “for” is irrelevant. Read More »

Cinderella walked on broken glass. Sleeping Beauty let a lifetime pass. Belle fell in love with a beast. Princess Jasmine chose a common theif. Ariel walked on land for love. Snow White barely escaped a knife. It was all about blood, sweat, and tears because love means facing your biggest fears. . Read More »