It’s mah birthday! #SOL26
...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...
Jun 22, 2026 0 6 min read
Real Life
13 Random Things: End of Semester Edition #SOL26
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...
Timeline: Relapse & Decline
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...
Good Teaching Day #SOL26
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...
You Take the Good, You Take the Bad , You Take Them Both and There you Have…#SOL26
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....
Lost #SOL26
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...
Stand-Up #SOL26
Tonight is my encore comedy performance, which I have titled Oops...I'm Doing It Again. When I did my first stand-up show in December, it was the culmination of a 10-week class,...
Samoas #SOL26
It's Girl Scout cookie season and time for me to face the truth about my daughter: she is a Samoas fiend. I came home one day, and my daughter said, "I bought some Samoas. I left...
Quantum Leap Moments #SOL26
I'm currently listening to Leslie Jones's book, Leslie F*cking Jones. (It's awesome and you should listen to it because she goes off script A LOT.) In the book, she talks a lot...