Starting tomorrow I am excited to be starting NaBloPoMo. In case you don’t know what it is, it is a 30 day blogging challenge, where you commit to writing a post every day for 30 days straight. I have no idea how this will turn out for me, but I am eager to meet that…
Month: October 2014
To Go or Not To Go
Last night in class we were discussing what happens for most of us in the very near future: we all graduate, and we need to decide what we want to do with the rest of our lives. That is, if we haven’t figured it out yet. This is how it is for an English major,…
It Doesn’t Matter What I Think
Last week when I was waiting with my fellow classmates for our professor to come start class, we were discussing how we have a lot of homework; almost too much. It started out with us all agreeing that we have a lot of homework, and every time someone chimed in they would add something to…
Who Gets to Keep the Family?
Recently I was reading a post another blogger wrote about in laws. When you get divorced, what do you call the people who have always been your “in laws?” Do they become your “exes,” too? Do they become something else? Or do they become nothing at all? This is the link to the post I was reading: http://goodmombadwife.com/2014/10/13/am-i-missing-something/ When we were…
Monday Madness
You know it’s going to be a long day, when it is 7:30am, you just got up, and you’re already looking forward to bedtime. Last Monday, I went to the gas station to get gas, and somewhere in between me pulling into the parking lot and filling my car up with gas, the sliding door…
Letting Go
I’ve been following this site called “Becoming Minimalist.” If you read my bio (a big thanks by the way if you took the time to do so); you’ll know that I aspire to be a minimalist; which essentially means learning to live with as little as I can. However, I suspect I currently have too…
6am Thoughts on Women Leadership
So this morning is probably the only day that I will be able to sleep in this week and this is what I woke up thinking about: Can women be managers or in positions of leadership? This is the question my coworker and I were talking about yesterday. We were talking about issues that are…
I Got Rid of My Worst Vice
One of my English Professors has challenged all of her students to be able to get to the point where they can write about anything at any given moment. That means that we all have to be able to write without being told what to write about. I feel pretty confident about this. In fact,…
Pay Attention to “The Girls!”
In 1995, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. I remember this clearly. It was shortly after the birth of my first son. It was a fluke the way she was diagnosed, really. Some unexpected bleeding in the middle of the night led to a trip to the emergency room, where the cancer was discovered….