Thankful
This is the same thankful poem I posted last year, but I love it, and so I’m posting it again. Hope you all had a lovely holiday– I think I’ll have a full post of memories from mine, but not yet. Thanks by W. S. Merwin Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water thanking it smiling by the windows looking out in our directions back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging afte

Flashing Back
Today, in the second half of a no good, very bad, horrible day, I came to a stop at a red light in the misty rain and very shortly thereafter heard the sound of breaking glass as someone crashed into my rear bumper. As car crashes go, it was relatively minor– no real damage to my car past some scratches, and while the other car got the worst of it, the other driver was not hurt. I’ve got some soreness in my neck and right shoulder that I’m hoping goes away tomorrow, and I was the only passenger in my car. But I’m still a little weepy and trembling about it, because it made me flash instantly back to another accident. If you’ve been

Moving Forward
My Unbloggable Issue has not exactly resolved, but I’m moving on nonetheless. Because sometimes as a grown-up, that’s what you have to do, to keep on keeping on despite whatever might be holding you back. And there have been exciting things happening too, as often happens in life. A colleague of mine and I gave a long-planned presentation at the AIMS annual conference, and it was well-received. Scratch that– it was received with applause, high praise, and incredible feedback from friends and strangers alike. I joined a new committee at school and am very excited about the work we are undertaking, and the fact th

A First
The time has come, the Walrus said….. to not talk about my very first Unbloggable Issue. It’s on my mind a lot and there’s not much else I feel like discussing, so that puts me on the blogging bench for a short while. It’s nothing to do with anyone in my family– no harm has befallen us, so don’t worry. I just need to go quiet for awhile. See you soonish.

Fear Factor
Here’s my week: first quarter grades and comments for all my students were due this morning at 8:00 AM pumpkin carving contest with my advisory this morning– each grade had a different theme, ours was historical figures, the girls made a post-guillotine pumpkinhead-Marie-Antoinette just getting over strep throat birthday dinner for my sister Thursday evening distributing the 130some boxes of Girl Scout cookies people ordered from my kids husband starting to pre-emptively freak out about law school exams waiting anxiously for all