Coming Undone: Full Circle
It only made sense that my full circle moment would be in Mexico. In Baja. I was confident. Calm. Courageous. I stepped off the plane knowing exactly what I wanted.
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Coming Undone: Fat Armpits
Coming Undone: Fat Armpits Fat armpits. Parenthesis lines. Sag. Brian Fog. Elephant knees. These are THE struggles. Especially when you are a middle-aged, divorced mother of three teenagers. Trying to
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Coming Undone: Pause (Versión en inglés y español incluida)
Of course, I had to go back. To the place that brought me clarity. Far away from the life, the world, that had almost consumed me. Where things made more sense. Where I
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Coming Undone: Move (Versión en inglés y español incluida)
Read Part 1: Coming Undone: Nothing Read Part 2: Coming Undone: Live Read Part 3: Coming Undone: Jump Read Part 4: Coming Undone: The Secret Read Part 5: Coming Undone: The Biggest First Steps Read
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Coming Undone: I Can’t Do This (Versión en inglés y español incluida)
Part 1: Coming Undone: Nothing Part 2: Coming Undone: Live Part 3: Coming Undone: Jump Part 4: Coming Undone: The Biggest First Steps Part 5: Coming Undone: The Room Part 6: I Can’t Do
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Coming Undone: The Room (Versión en inglés y español incluida)
Part 1: Coming Undone: Nothing Part 2: Coming Undone: Live Part 3: Coming Undone: Jump Part 4: Coming Undone: The Secret Part 5: Coming Undone: The Biggest First Steps Part 6: The Room Imagine treading
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Coming Undone: The Biggest First Steps (Versión en inglés y español incluida)
Read Part 1: Coming Undone: Nothing Read Part 2: Coming Undone: Live Read Part 3: Coming Undone: Jump Read Part 4: Coming Undone: The Secret Part 5: The Biggest First Steps. How the
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Coming Undone: The Secret (Versión en inglés y español incluida)
Read Part 1: Coming Undone: Nothing Read Part 2: Coming Undone: Live Read Part 3: Coming Undone: Jump Part 4: The Secret I wasn’t completely honest. Not in the beginning, at least.
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Coming Undone: Nothing (Versión en inglés y español incluida)
I haven’t written as much in the past year. I’ve been stuck. Stuck on knowing what I need to do and finding the courage to actually do so. I spent
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Baja Lessons: A Week of What Matters (Versión en inglés y español incluida)
“One life on this Earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least
Read MoreThe VOICES of THOSE KIDS
During preservice a few years ago, I ran into a group of new teachers at lunch. We had a brief conversation about where we worked. When they heard where I taught, a PRTF (Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility), one of the teachers said, “Good for you. I couldn’t work with THOSE kids.” I said, “You do realize when THOSE kids leave […]
Learning is Not Closed
Changing aren’t coming. They’re here. Everything is changing. Again. Hard decisions were made in most of our communities. Precautions and restrictions and shut downs. Quarantines and capacities and illnesses. I know emotions are high and opinions are all over the place. Not everyone agrees or understands. Some will make the transition relatively easily and some it’s going to hit hard. […]