I saw a bracelet that said, "When nothing goes right, go left." It stuck with me. I liked the reminder that we have options in life and we don't have to resign ourselves to misery. I made me think of some of the statements I use that could be similarly modified to allow for a [...]
Michael Strand…help a spectator out.
Oscar Wilde once said,“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.” Wilde's words have increasingly come to mind over the past month or so as I have pondered and watched others ponder the new piece of art in the AHSS Dean's Office. It is a very different piece and it has produced [...]
If only I owned a hair salon…
If I had a dollar for each time Cheyenne lamented - "Why can't you just own a hair salon or something? Why do you have to be in emergency management?" - I would have a fist full of dollars. It comes up every single time I reference anything about her safety or security. I am, [...]
Easily scarred…
I have always envied folks with a cast iron stomach. It seems they can eat just about anything without suffering any consequences. My stomach is more accurately described as a porcelain stomach - quite fragile. I would never survive one of those game shows where they make you eat weird disgusting things. I am not [...]
Wired differently…
14 years of sparkle…
Today is Miss Sparkle's 14th birthday. And no, that isn't an April Fool's Day joke...well, at least not this year. As I say every year on this day, the universe was likely trying to layer on a sarcastic commentary when I had Cheyenne on April 1, 1999 - just three months before my 40th birthday. [...]
Easter is a little different at my house this year…
One of the challenges of a shared custody agreement is that on alternating holidays your child is with the other parent. That reality pretty much shapes the way I view the activities I plan for any given holiday. For all of my parenting life my celebrations of holidays have been about making my children happy. [...]
THE NEW FORTY 