I received an email from an old colleague slash friend a few days ago. The email said that she had lost my number, was let go from her job, and had a baby less than a year ago. I couldn’t help but recall the last time we met: I just had my daughter, agreed to […]
The 2018-19 school year marks my 7th year of teaching. And with my master’s in secondary English education, whatever grade you can assume I’ve taught, I’ve done more… Well, most of it. From early education to middle school and now I’ve been steadily teaching high school for three years. And as this month marks a […]
Spending the mornings with my daughter is the highlight of my day. I adore spending time with my 15-month-old daughter and watching her grow in this magical time in her life. She’s only going to be this little once; I want to relish it. But when I drop her off at daycare by 10:15 a.m. […]
I’m just going to say it: I’ve always had big breasts. I was a full C in high school and every year since they grew. I remember the good ole days when I was naive and gleeful about my full, natural chest. But then I became wiser. A few years back, a co-worker of mine was […]
Saying “I’m sorry” is something I’m quite familiar with. So much so, that when I was in eighth grade, a mentor of mine recommended that I wear a rubber-band around my wrist and smack it whenever I say “sorry.” Suffice to say, it didn’t work. (And ouch, by the way.) Life before my daughter was […]
Two weeks after I gave birth, I found myself checked back into the hospital. But, this time, my husband checked me into a psychiatric facility and my newborn daughter wasn’t allowed to visit me. Instead, my husband brought printed photos of her, and showed me others on his phone. I remember hanging them up in my […]
I am a proud Pinterest user. Everything I pin, I make. When I pin, I pin with purpose. So for my daughter’s first birthday, you could imagine how I excited I was to look up and pin ideas for a trendy smash cake session. A little baby girl hugging her smash cake? Pin. Is that squeals […]
This month, my husband and I are celebrating our fourth wedding anniversary. Yes, yes, we haven’t been married that long, but we have been together since 2011. Throughout that time span, milestones and many events have traveled across our relationship: the death of a parent, job loss, sibling weddings, jaunts across the nation and the […]
I practically grew up at the Public Library in Tempe. My memories are full of my single mom lugging me, my two sisters, and two brothers into the van and involve either a story time, checking out handfuls of books, and/or volunteering at the library. I never imagined that I would be making my way […]
