Joe and I found out that Owl House is having a set dinner menu this evening, and as a result we decided to go there for lunch while Matthew was still with Mimi (my mom). Win! For dinner, it looks like we’ll be stuck with the original plan (to please my rib-lovin’ nephew), and we’re …
New Year’s Eve lunch was a big win. Takin’ one for the team at dinner… Read More »
I have a problem. Really, it’s not natural for one person to have so many email addresses. If I teach for six schools (or is it seven?), that means I have email logins and online classroom logins to remember for each of them (even the face-to-face classes are web enhanced). That causes me to have …
Wow, what a week! My visiting friends are gone, the commitments for food and drink are over…it’s freezing outside (but I did manage to go on a walk or two), and my apartment is even super duper clean. We stay pretty low key around here for any and all holidays—we’re just not fancy party kind …
I’ve been thinking about the concept of failure and success in relation to time, and how all the pieces of a process fit together. For me, I have this secret (well, not-so-secret anymore) idea that I always get everything I ask for. It’s true! The thing is, sometimes it takes a really long time, and …
A fail on the micro umami, but a success overall Read More »
“The problem isn’t that we have bodies, the problem is that we’re not living in them.” – Geneen Roth When I talk to people about the concept of mindfulness, their eyes usually glaze over. I use a person’s reactions to my initial comments as a gauge to help me figure out how far to go …
Bring yourself back to your body, even if you have to do it 1,000 times a day Read More »
I just finished watching the local news, which was reporting sensationally on the health of women in the US. Note: 12 states failed, and no state excelled. We’re not surprised, right? They noted that the states doing particularly poorly were those who did not have any legislation about health, or any promotional or educational campaigns aiming to …
I have spent most of my adolescent and adult life trying to be in good shape, and at different times I’ve been in better and worse physical condition, with the low points being (1) after my sister died and I moved from Boston back to Penn Yan (aka: the land of Pizza Hut eaters, no …
On the way to NYC, we flipped and flopped around the radio stations, and (before I realized what it was) Joe started to flick quickly past this one song that is a quintessential Jen and Steve song from high school. I never listened to country music, but those two rednecks-in-training did…you know, sometime between when they were …
Oh yeah, about the break-up. Not with Joe, and whoever is spreading that rumor around can stuff it 🙂 I actually just broke up with my gym. I love Midtown–it’s clean and fancy and the locker room doesn’t smell like corn chips. But I am transitioning out of Rochester slowly, and as an employee of …
This Week’s Break-Up, Games, Weirdness, and Sickness Read More »
This week in Death and Dying Class, we’re talking about suicide and earlier this morning my class watched a really graphic video about drunk driving deaths. I found this Frontline show about assisted suicide that made me really sad and uplifted at the same time–we’ll be watching it today in class. I highly recommend watching …
Death Class—Reasons to be Saddened and Uplifted, Reminded to be Grateful for Moments Read More »
