Hello Friends: I know it’s been awhile. I’m occupying a place of contradiction; busy yet still, full yet unsatisfied, grateful yet melancholy. I struggle with feeling I’ve nothing new to say, yet I want to make my voice heard. A month ago, I hung a spring wreath on my door made of twigs and pink Read More
Tag: children
Heartbreaks
Yesterday evening my husband and I were watching a National Geographic nature show with my nine-year-old daughter when enjoyment turned to tears. We got to the inevitable point where the bear catches up to the newborn elk, who had fallen behind the herd, and you know the rest. My daughter ran upstairs crying and vowing Read More
A New Low
Across the state of California, enrollment is down 6% for the 2021-22 school year, or 160,000 students, according to the California Department of Education. And data from School Innovations and Achievement, a company that offers software and services to schools aimed at improving attendance, shows that chronic absence rates increased by 39% from March 2020 Read More
Footprints in Your Heart
This weekend, I went to a new hair stylist for a cut and color, and had lunch with one of my best friends. I haven’t had either of those experiences in about six months. Both gave me a definite mental boost, and connection I didn’t realize I’ve been craving. However it was the lunch that Read More