From the Outside Looking In…

Yes, today is my birthday!  I am so grateful to have the opportunity to celebrate my 25th birthday once again. 
I have received so many good wishes from people in person, over the phone, and over facebook.  I am so thankful for all of the people in my life who have taken the time [...]

This evening, after walking to the parking lot from the school building, my friend and coworker BD and I were talking about just random stuff.  It was during this conversation that she commented how last year at this time I was not in a good space emotionally and to look at the drastic difference one [...]

So, now that I am back from Orlando, I spent the rest of the school week trying to make up for my absence.  Visiting classrooms, completing student recommendation forms for their high schools of choice, interviewing for the openings I forsee for next school year, and compiling data for two days of meetings outside of [...]

I think I said that to about 50 people today at work.  The sun is shining and even though we are dealing with a brief cold spell after a week or so of gawgeous temperatures there is much to smile about.  Sure, some days are tougher than others and that’s why a reminder to smile [...]

With the start of a new year often comes resolutions and promises, right?  Some make the usual “more exercise” or “watch what I eat” promises that are often started with great vigor and fizzle out like an old bottle of soda.  Spending the last two days with LC, we have had many a conversation about [...]

I cannot believe another year has come and gone, and I cannot believe where I am today and the perspective from which I write today.  There is no way to predict the future and, if it was even possible, I am not sure I would want to.  This has been, relatively speaking, an amazing year.
This [...]

Let me start by wishing everyone a happy and healthy Christmas day and start to the New Year!  Here is a photo of this year’s National Christmas Tree.

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Santa was very good to me this year!  Last night, LC and I went for a walk around the White House and took some [...]

The Kennedy Center concert was spectacular yesterday!  The entire concert hall was decorated with holiday cheer and the full house was a sign of the spirit that filled the air with each song performed.  This year’s theme was music from the Czech Republic and the ambassador, along with the director of culture for the embassy, [...]

Something got me thinking about having children – oh, yea, it was the 260 of them around me throughout the day.
I know that one day we will have a family, children of our own.  How that is going to happen and in what time frame is still being discussed, although my biological clock is ticking.  [...]

Can it be?  Is this a sign of the apocalypse?
It seems that almost everything on the television now pertains to cooking.  This evening, after coming home from a very long (but productive!) day at work, I turned on the boob tube and saw something I could not believe – a combination oven and refrigerator.
Yes, a [...]