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...
May 19, 2026 0 10 min read
Real Life
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...
13 Random Things: Life Update Edition #SOL26
It's the first day of March, so regular readers of the blog know what that means: time to decide at the very last minute to participate in the Slice of Life Challenge hosted by...
Eulogy #SOL26
My dad died on January 24. When I made it a goal to start posting more consistently again, I never expected those to be the first words I typed. I planned to talk about my goals...