I have a nephew that was born just after Thanksgiving.  Every year, my Christmas crazed family begins to get a little more excited for the jollier holiday a little bit earlier every year.  With some even touting trees up mere days after Halloween jack o’ lanterns have hit the bins.  Now that this has been going on for the past few years, my Thanksgiving loving nephew’s favorite catchphrase has become, “Respect the Turkey”, said with both authority and from a genuine place of

As we have officially turned the clocks back this weekend I guess I have no other choice than to admit that the fall/autumn season is not only in full swing, but it is also the gratitude attitude season sprinkled with whispers of holiday cheer sneaking in for an early peak.  I can’t say I’m disappointed as I pack away the more witchy attire from my October fest of drying herbs, roasting squashes, and blanching any remaining vegetables from my garden that I couldn’t stuff with

I’m not here to whine about how growing up Gen X forced us to bottle up our emotions and toughen up.  Without having lived through the generationally passed down philosophy of “sucking it up” we wouldn’t be Gen X after all, it made us who we are.  However, that doesn’t mean that it didn’t leave some kind of mark imprinted on us and the way we approached life moving into our adult years. The age of learning to feel our feels and validate our emotions has arrived and as much as

I have a saying that brings me much comfort.  I often return to it when life, as they say, “hands you lemons”.  It is the adage, “life is...

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Once again, I find myself in the middle of August wondering where the summer has disappeared to.  Wasn’t it just the solstice with her...

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I write a lot about being free of my teaching career and how much more joy I have in my life now because I’m no longer there.  This is...

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I have had a love/hate relationship with procrastination for most of my life.  Convinced it was a detriment and something to put into my...

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There was one clear message that I kept receiving when I first left the classroom back in 2021, “Rest and Heal”.  It made so much sense...

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I’ve been thinking about what I want to do with the next chapter of my life ever since I knew in my core that I was done with traditional...

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I never quite know what will come out on the page when I first sit down to type.  It leads me to a fun question of whether or not this...

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I don’t know if I really thought my dream of becoming a "rockstar" all the way through, all I know is that it was always lying under the...