I met her when she was just out of college and eager to find her calling. She and I both landed a job at a local school and begun a most unlikely friendship; her young enough to be my daughter, neither of us considering that a barrier. I would visit her in her art classroom …
Alesia and I have known each other for several years. We first met eyes in the hallway of the school where I worked and both of our kids attended. There was some sort of cosmic “knowing” twinkle in our eyes. We are the same sort of mischief, it signaled to each of us. We both …
I woke up to thunder and pattering rain on my window. It was Saturday and I had a checklist that I could accomplish in my jammies and most definitely after my coffee. I will be staying this week at my friends’ house keeping company with their dogs and the beautiful country sunsets. It is a …
6 a.m. chimed on my phone and put a stop to the dream I was having With the advent of daylight saving time, I surprise myself with actually sleeping the past several days. I knew what was on the calendar, what was scheduled. I had a plan. But as I always do, I expect for …
I mean…..maybe not but….doesn’t life feel like the biggest lion you’ve ever seen right up in your face some days? Everything’s going along fine and then out of nowhere your well laid plans get blown up and the sound feels deafening, the plan is dead in the water and there is no solution that feels …