I’ve been off work for the past two days. The first day my school dismissed early and the second one the district I work for called off the night before. I love snow days. Thursday I took mulitple naps and worked on feeling better. By the evening I walked one hour on my treadmill–the first…
I’m looking forward to the end of November. I’m holding out hope that as December enters, these past two months will fade into a distant and not-too-pleasant memory. Frankly, I’m hoping that the string of bad luck fades as well. Not all has been horrible. My trip to Nashville with my journalism students was awesome….
I’m sick. One of those lingering colds that lasts about a week–so I’m midway through. I can’t breath right, I cough a lot, and my head pounds. My final proofs for my April book are here and have to be read and to my editor on Monday. I ache too much to even think about…
This has been the month from…well, I don’t need to say it. It has to do with fire, which unfortunately, I had just yesterday. Last Friday my harddrive crashed and burned. This Thursday, my daughter lit a fire in the fireplace. The damper was closed, and when smoke began to fill the house she panicked…
I have to admit, I have a fear of flying. I have nothing against airplanes once I get up in them or how little time they get me from point A to B, but I simply just don’t like getting into a tin can and zooming 30,000 feet above the world. Perhaps it’s something about…
