From the Outside Looking In…

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 yesterday was not a typical ‘principal day.’  Our wonderful physical education teacher was ill and my teachers are already overburdened and overworked this early in the school year that I could not cancel P.E. classes as I would have normally last year.  So, in the spirit of collegiality and the desire to wear track [...]

Well, after a month’s hiatus, I am back.  The last month has been filled with preparations for school.  I have been interviewing, hiring, ordering and sorting through textbook orders, setting up teacher professional days and the list of tasks goes on and on.  I do have to admit that I wanted to blog many times [...]

As I type this entry this afternoon, I am loading my extensive collection of Gregorian Chant onto my computer, and then my iPod.  I have recently gotten back to listening to my chant, especially in the evening after coming home from work.  Chant was very important to me when I was in religious life as [...]

Well, not as much babies as they were headaches.  Yes, the 8th grade graduation took place yesterday afternoon at the University of the District of Columbia.  Here were some highlights that made me very uncomfortable and actually angry as I sat on the stage:
1.  Two students – both from my campus – showed up at [...]

So as I was going into the conference room at the central office yesterday, I was stoppd by the head of schools who said “We have a friend in common…I spoke with PR last night.”  My jaw dropped – it had been a few years since PR and I last saw each other.  I was [...]

With an eventful weekend behind us, Memorial Day itself is already starting out as a reflective and relaxing day to ease me back into the work week.  I just finished a cup of coffee after sharing homemade waffles with LC in the dining room.  As he folds laundry (both mine and his!) we have HGTV [...]

I have to say that the two hardest working people at school most days are my two office mates, my secretary and my operations manager.  They field all the calls that come into the school, are the first line of defense for disgruntled parents, filter through my mail and only bring to me what is [...]

This can be a very precarious time of the school year.  With only 15 school days or so left in the year, students and teachers alike often want to unwind and get into “coasting” mode through to the end of the year.  Danger.  And I can see the effects of this already.
In some classes I [...]

I am procrastinating this rainy Sunday.  I have already made the scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast for breakfast and this morning I put chopped olives and mozzarella cheese in the eggs!  What a nice start to the day with a sprinkle of salsa on the eggs.  So, that took up some time as the coffee [...]