When the sun starts to rise and I open my eyes You are good, so good. In the heat of the day wiith each stone that I lay, You are good.  With every breath I take in, I’ll tell you I’m grateful again. When the moon climbs high before each kiss goodnight,  You are good. So how can I thank […]

That right there is the main road to our neighborhood. As for me, I have been absent! So absent, but I won’t pretend, you guys are used to this by now. I have come to accept that I am terrible at multitasking. My husband tells me this daily, but the pride in me thinks of […]

Life has been so extremely fast lately. Especially with whispers of the lockout lifting soon, we have pushed ourselves into high speed. My summer school is also accelerated to twice the speed of a regular semester, and my three professors are taking no prisoners. We put the St. Louis house up for rent at the […]

For my English Composition: Creative Persuasion and Argument class, I had to write a compelling essay using the Evaluation Arguments technique. I chose the topic of the harsh admissions world of Elite Colleges.Paragraph after paragraph I wrote the statistics of higher numbers of high school graduates than ever, the statistics of Harvard and MIT and […]

Everybody take a big deep breath….hold it….hold it….okay, breathe out. That feeling you have right now is how I will feel for two weeks, self imposed relaxation. Why? Because after nearly two months of living out of a suitcases, eating way too expensive room service, and not being in the same city for more than a […]

She won’t remember the pollen in her nose, or the spiky berries under her foot in the basket…but she will remember how loved she has been from the start, and how beautiful her mommy is.