This week I cut my hair. It started as a few inches off, then a few more. I walked around with it short for about a day and a half and when I came back from my Sunday morning walk, I handed my husband the clippers and said, take the rest off. You see, I’ve… Read More Cutting it All Off
Fly Away Home When I first proclaimed, “Mexico is my home!” and we moved from our beautiful home in our little suburb of Chicago, truth be told, I had mixed emotions. I was very excited to move to a tropical locale, ahead of the impending winter weather, but I was also nostalgic. Would things be… Read More Mexico is My Home: 28 Reasons Why (& Counting)!
Do you ever feel like everything is just sitting still in time and think to yourself, “Man, I’m ready for a change”? And then the change comes. Well, more like 1,000 changes come. All at once. Back. To. Back. To. Back. That’s precisely what happened to me. Or, rather, what is happening to me. Ever… Read More Flying the Coop
Today, February 1, 2016 marks the official one-year anniversary of my leap of faith. It was an incredible leap. It was terrifying, gut-wrenchingly sad, apocalyptic and exhilarating all at the same time. After two years in graduate school studying for a M.Ed. in elementary education, four years in the classroom as a lead teacher and… Read More One Year Later