AJ and a LATTE

Life has been so fast!  I look up and it has been months since I’ve posted.   My verse for the year is Philippians 2:14–”Do everything without arguing and complaining.”   I have worked very hard to live by this, but I am going to take a time-out from it for just a minute.  I am sickened… Read more: After a life well lived…

I thought when I retired my life would slow down a little!  No longer would I have the “Sunday Scaries” trying to get lesson plans done and the long list of to do’s ready for the new week.  No longer would I have to come home and lament over the times I had to be… Read more: Living in a fog…

Words have eluded me for the past couple of weeks.  Everyone has asked me how I was doing with Keelan getting married.  I’ve smiled and said fine.  I’ve held it together.  I’ve shrugged it off like “I’ve got this.”  Everyone expected me to be a blubbering mess I suppose. The last two days were the… Read more: He’s Home

As this past year has unfolded I have shared so many firsts.  We are embarking on a whole new adventure of firsts as we literally are running into the new school year.  ‘25-’26 will have its own new normals with Matt going it without me at school and me forging my own new way at… Read more: Just the…

I am going to share the first lyrics from the song Changes from Shrek 2 by David Bowie performed by Butterfly Boucher. Still don’t know what I was looking forAnd my time was running wildA million dead-end streets andEverytime I thought I’d got it madeIt seemed the taste was not so sweetSo I turned myself… Read more: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes