I have done something I’ve needed to do for a long time. I quit my night teaching job. Really. I know it’s the right thing for me. Teaching three nights a week on top of my day job and my morning class has really been running me into the ground. I get home so late [...]
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Bowing out.
Posted in NaBloPoMo, choose your own adventure, letting go, self care, teaching, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, work, tagged choose your own adventure, crazy-making, letting go, NaBloPoMo, sad, self care, teaching, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, work on 26 November 2009 | 6 Comments »
Only my hairdresser knows for sure …*
Posted in NaBloPoMo, Yikes!, choose your own adventure, music, my own private Idaho, neurotic much?, wake up call, what's so funny?, tagged choose your own adventure, music, my own private Idaho, NaBloPoMo, neurotic much?, silliness, wake up call, what's so funny?, WTF?!?!, Yikes! on 22 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… well, my hairdresser and TNT, apparently.
I like to believe I look pretty young (that pic on the “Kin” page is a couple years old, but I haven’t changed much). I feel pretty young most days, and I certainly act painfully young a good percetage of the time. True, at work I am surrounded by 20-something [...]
Going Up?
Posted in NaBloPoMo, choose your own adventure, containing myself, out and about, show me the money!, women, tagged choose your own adventure, containing myself, money, NaBloPoMo, out and about, show me the money!, women on 21 November 2009 | 2 Comments »
As my current sidebar says, I’m on the board of WE LEARN (Women Expanding Literacy Education Action Resource Network), and right now we’re in the difficult position of needing to raise a significant amount of money in a relatively short time. I’m asking the folks I know to make donations if they can, asking my [...]
Connecting the dots.
Posted in NaBloPoMo, brain freeze, choose your own adventure, containing myself, family, full disclosure?, mothers and daughters, race and racism, teaching, where we're from, tagged backstories, choose your own adventure, containing myself, family, full disclosure?, mothers and daughters, NaBloPoMo, race and racism, teaching, the family adventure, where we're from on 20 November 2009 | 9 Comments »
After the surprise of seeing photos of the matriarchs in my family, my students stumbled over what those photos were saying to them. We had, you’ll remember, just been talking about the “shock” of discovering that Michelle Obama has a white person (at least one) in her family tree. That was, of course, the reason [...]
What’d you get done in the last 14 1/3 weeks?
Posted in NaBloPoMo, Obama, choose your own adventure, teaching, what now?, tagged teaching, politics, Obama-sistible, what now?, choose your own adventure, NaBloPoMo, Obama on 17 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Author’s note: I’m cleaning house today and found this post lying around in my “Draft” folder. It’s from April 30th, so it’s the 14 1/3 weeks before April 30th that this post refers to. Not sure why I never hit “Publish” when this is pretty much whole and says what I wanted to say. WordPress tells [...]
