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"Everyone will sit under their own vine and under their own fig tree, and no one will make them afraid"...a line of words woven together with musical accompaniment and crisp voices that have been traveling through my Amazon Echo while I have been working on various pro...

Jason Mraz is probably my favorite singer of all times. The way he manipulates language to create a quilting together of words and music is awe inspiring to a total English nerd like myself. Every summer my husband, children and I go to San Diego to visit family. And e...

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages." - William Shakespeare As You Like It
 

I have been on stage for around seven years, adj...

I "may" have forgot to mention that last spring I decided to take on the task of being our school's WASC Coordinator for the 2016-17 school year. Many of you will probably stop reading the blog as of now because you realize that I must be some b-shiza crazy lady that i...

I have entered a new place for me both professionally and personally--I have discovered meditation. In an rare moment or rather whim I downloaded three apps to my phone during my 2nd period Honors class and proceeded to "test" out the hull-a-ba-loo around this whole mi...

As a teacher I am often asked, "Why did you go into teaching?" Most people answer altruistically with, "I want to change our future," or "I love working with children," or "I want kids to feel they're important." My answer (when I answer truthfully) is always less altr...

It's Mother's Day...the one day a year I can ask the hubs for a day off from adulting without any resentment or IOUs later. In past years the hubs has made a "choose your own adventure" sheet noting my favorite foods, places to go, or getaway spas that serve unlimited...

Out of all of the things I do in life I have realized that I was born to be a mother--not in the gender stereotypical have babies in a barefoot and pregnant way, but in a nurturing mother earth hippie way. I think to help elucidate this mother earth archetype I need to...

I am almost recovered (although I wish I wasn’t) from my time in the lush clutches of the Hawaiian state. This adventure back to the garden island was met with some hesitation as the last time I was there, I was downing two Xanax after our engine exploded and our plane...