Welp, it’s July and I haven’t made a single book post all year. Instead of bombarding you with the many, many books I’ve read (34 so far), I’m just going to hit the highlights, starting with memoirs written by comedians. My dad died in January, so I have been in…

…birthday week, more like. My actual birthday is on Friday. I wasn’t going to post this week but then I had two conversations over the past couple of weeks that made me give pause. A friend asked me what I was doing to celebrate finishing the most recent draft of…

Since it’s been a minute since my last update post, a random things list: 1. Between the fact that I didn’t get my finalized schedule until two days before the beginning of the semester and I went from two preps to four and the Great Canvas Hack of 2026, I…

My (step)dad who raised me died in January from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. I wanted to put together a timeline for myself so I can have everything that happened from the time of his diagnosis to his death all in one place. This is the second post in the series.…

My (step)dad who raised me died in January from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. I wanted to put together a timeline for myself so I can have everything that happened from the time of his diagnosis to his death all in one place. This is the first post in the…

I had a very good teaching day yesterday. First, it started with this gem I received from a student: As we are more than halfway into the class, I would like to tell you that I have learned a lot from your class. Although I am grumbling about the heavy…

Today is the last day of the Slice of Life challenge, and I obviously did not post every day of the challenge. In fact, my last post was twenty-one days (three weeks!) ago. Things just got very hectic around here, so I wound up tapping out, I will be honest…

And the week of birthdays continue! Today is my friend’s Sam’s birthday, and she texted me this morning to ask if I still wanted to go to dinner to which I, of course, said yes. After driving for an hour (ah, bless you, LA traffic), I got to her place…

My daughter turned 27 today. I feel like every year on her birthday or Mother’s Day, my daughter likes to remind me that I have a child so will never stop being a parent. This year, it happened a little after midnight. I texted her to wish her a happy…

I have a problem. It’s happened once or twice before that I redo my website–actually, have someone redo my website, let’s be real–and then, I see a really cute layout somewhere out there and want to change mine. Or, worse, I want to go back to how it was before.…