Do you have a favorite word game? One of the favorites at my house is Scrabble. I’m not particularly good at playing it, but I do enjoy a good match-up now and then. Son number two has been beating me lately. Something’s shifted when you don’t win games you play with your kids anymore… (Oh …
Writing
Since I’m the daughter of two teachers and an educator myself, I tend to think of years in terms of school years. My life has always revolved around the school calendar. It seems it still does. January might mark the true beginning of the New Year, but late August or September is how I really …
I guess this week is “blogging reflection week” for me. Anniversaries, even blogging anniversaries, require reflection don’t they? I hope you’ll bear with me and keep reading. After my last post where I went on more than a bit about how grateful I am for the whole new world that has opened up to me …
It’s been one year since I pushed that publish button and posted my first blog post. Time flies, even when you’re fighting cancer! It seems like this might be a good time to reflect a bit on my blogging experience thus far and share a few of the discoveries I have made along the way. …
Recently friend and fellow blogger Marie, from Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer, suggested to fellow bloggers that it might be fun to briefly step away from cancer and blog about “stuff from our other life.” Marie is from Ireland and one of the people I have come to “know” during the past months. As a friend …