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a place for everything & everything in its place
Finally, I have claimed one of the rooms in our house as my own. No longer will it be where the cat hangs out all day with two obsolete computers, a vacuum cleaner, and a guitar that hasn’t been played since I gave up trying to be Bonnie Raitt. It is becoming a place for my music, my musings, my self. Creating my space has necessitated a flurry of intense Spring cleaning, deciding what should stay and what should go. It was in the throes of such sorting and the shredding of statements and bills and really old Tax returns, that I happened upon the bright green Cancer 101 planner,…
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an altered state
Scrolling through my Twitter feed this morning, I spied a message from Marie over at Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer. “Will you join me for #mhblogday?” Happy to oblige, (it’s Marie, after all), I clicked on the link, and found myself at the American Psychological Association website. There, I learned that May is Mental Health Month and has been since 1949, declared as such by the United States Congress which recognized a need to educate its citizenry about mental health and its importance to our overall well-being. Over sixty years later, and it seems like we still have some talking to do . . . Today, the American Psychological Association is appealing…
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Once again . . . for my mother.
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letters after her name . . .
There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher. This upcoming week, I am quite certain that I will not be the only one to invoke Pat Conroy’s Prince of Tides. All over America, during Teacher Appreciation Week teachers and their craft are honored with public fanfare and the more personal gestures as well. It’s the time of year when some teachers are counting down the days until school’s out for summer, and then others are figuring out how to make every instructional minute…
