When The Tall Daddy and I split up, I moved out in January and was in a really bad position financially until August, after I had gotten one or two paychecks. The following is something I wrote at the time. I have edited it slightly, just to take out or clarify references to things that … Read more
The other day, I wrote about contributing to my school community. Another great thing happened in that little piece of the day. I’ve been struggling with many of my classes. Without getting into too many details, my classes are not your typical elementary band classes, because that approach hasn’t worked with the populations I teach. … Read more
This post started as just a Facebook post and flowed very earnestly. It reached a length and depth where I decided to make it a blog post. I was very excited to post it until I got near the end, at which point it felt like useless prattling on. I decided that the feeling was … Read more
Tomorrow’s post is a recommendation for a podcast episode I’ve been listening to. (I still have about half an hour left, and I’m not going to post about it until I’ve heard the whole thing, even though you could listen to half of what I’ve completed so far and it would be worthwhile.) They’re talking … Read more
In January, I wrote about a chart I’d made to track behaviors of health and self-care. I had thought—or, more accurately, hoped—that seeing holes in the list would spur me to do some of the things that simply haven’t been getting done, even if the increase was to once a week, or once every other … Read more
I have no role model in my family to show me what life looks like as an aging healthy person. I don’t know what life expectancy is. I know one of my great-grandmothers lived to somewhere around 100 (she edited her birth certificate when she immigrated here so she could get work, so we’re not … Read more
I am, in some ways, incredibly lazy. Laziness has saved me from so much junk food. If I’m at home and am craving something, almost always, I’m too lazy to go out and get it. (This is most likely because the craving is trying to fill the hole created by lazy/bored/maybe sad, and going to … Read more
Some days, I sit down to write and I write and write and will get out three or four or five posts in a sitting and have to decide which I’m the most anxious to get out to you first. Some days, I sit down to write and I write and write and am not … Read more
I’ve wanted to leave teaching and go into health and wellness (which really is just another kind of teaching) for years. At the advice of my trainer at the time, I went and got my personal trainer certification because it has a nutrition component and that would be good enough credential to do weight loss … Read more
I’m a big fan of reducing plastic consumption. It started when I was in chemo and a friend gifted me a Klean Kanteen. In the years since then, I’ve built up a healthy stainless steel water bottle collection, replaced all of my food storage containers with glass or stainless steel, eliminated disposables from the kitchen. … Read more