Change Is The Only constant

Recently I’ve been reflecting on the changes in my life. There have been many. I have never been a human who particularly likes change, though have realized I really appreciate the new start it allows. My oldest is in his senior year of high school right now. I get to be a bit distracted by […]

Checking In

I finally have a few minutes to collect my thoughts on how things are going. … why not make it public? Student teaching has been awesome. Daunting. Intimidating. Exhausting. Confusing. Rewarding. Affirming. … lots of things. If I weren’t also going to school and having to keep on top of tasks and classes, it would […]

Accepted

If you’ve worked in schools in any capacity you have learned a few things. 1. Anyone older than “just started driving” is just OLD. AARP, cannot speak the lingo, sedan-driving “OLD”. 2. If you are an adult near a kid, if you are not their teacher, piss off. “You have no authoritAh over me, peasant! […]

Updates

I am completely and utterly exhausted one week into my student teaching. The good news is that I love it! Student teaching is really one week of observing, getting the lay of the land, getting to know the students, getting a grasp on the classroom culture and schedule, helping here and there, jumping in to […]

Your Growing Body

Going back to reality after Christmas/Winter Break is always challenging. It’s more than difficult, it seems impossible. It’s a smidge of excitement to get back to a human schedule and function in a world filled with fully clothed people at all times, but you fight that need with all the strength your sugar-fueled, pajama-addicted, hollow-eyed, […]

Drop and Give me zero

Today was a PE day. Me and my extra 100lbs were standing in the gym as the teacher is demonstrating a fitness test. She is in her experienced yoga pants and tank top showing the students what an acceptable form for a push up looks like. “If you can’t extend and do it on your […]

Form Letter

Sad but true, doctors don’t always take women seriously. Especially if that woman is in pain. Add to that other factors like weight, lifestyle, sexual preference, gender identity, race, and you have an equation that is quite infuriating for many. I am a middle-aged, white, overweight/obese, cis gendered woman and my most debilitating, life-altering pain […]

The Making of an Adult

I am a Gen Xer. We are the “Listen, we didn’t have _____ growing up, and we turned out just fine.” generation. Except we didn’t. Not really. We are the unsupervised, never-restrained, running-wild-in-the-streets kids who are now out in the adulting world, some of us even had kids. … some even on purpose! We accepted […]

August Mom ’23

I’m tired y’all. TIE-URD. Maybe it’s because I just got back from Vegas with my husband, maybe it’s because I’m old and out of shape, maybe it’s because I’m battling month three of issues that keep me from sitting too long on my rear end, I don’t know. I just know I need a week […]

The Village

https://youtu.be/YM8UzTadJ7A This clip was shared on a parent of LGBTQ+ kids I am in. It speaks volumes and I wanted to share it with you. The song was what hit me the hardest: “There’s Something Wrong With The Village”. Maybe it’s not something you understand until you have an important LGBTQ+ kid in your life, […]

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	KDKH on The Making of an Adult
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	KDKH on Last Lap