Some of you have had weekly private sessions with a professional counselor, because you realized you needed help. I had to marry my counselor. “Matthew, L.C.P.C. (Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor), do you take Christy, H.M. (hot mess), to be your lawfully wedded wife? Do you promise to love and cherish her, in mental and emotional…
My brain is going to explode. For so long, I guess since the kids left home, my calendar has been blissfully quiet and slow –just the way my introverted, home-body soul likes it. But I have some new irons in the fire these days. These are lovely irons to which God has directed me, but…
Google calendar groaned just now, as I hit add, add, add. My life has been hard work this summer but fairly simple, and now it’s not. Now there is school, which comes with rapid-fire meetings, retreats, luncheons, and to-do lists. And we’re making a quick run to Wyoming for my mom’s retirement party. Then AWANA…
My mouth is where I feel it first. Because my bite has changed with age, if I get stressed out I start to clench my teeth and rub raw spots on my tongue and cheeks. This serves as a low fuel indicator light. And I’m not like the guys, who live for the adventure of…
At 1:00 yesterday, Matt and I stepped off of an airplane and back into Life. We had enjoyed a lovely visit with friends, in central Oregon, but visits end, and responsibilities jump on you like hungry boys on hot pizza. Pretty soon I was opening a bottle of ibuprofen and shaking pills into my hand….
This week, whew. One of those weeks at work, you know? I gave a test and thought I would run out of red ink before I was done grading them. Sent me into a spin trying to figure out if the problem was me or the students? Were they not working hard enough? Was I…
Twenty-eight hours into a 30-hour road trip –that’s when my son’s 2000 Dodge Neon lost its lights. We were five minutes north of Fort Worth, Texas when my husband decided we were going to have to find a mechanic. There was no way we could get through Fort Worth with no brake lights. Bums were…
Lots of emotions going in my neck of the woods. Everything from a wonderful stress over the surprise that I got a new, huge classroom at school (what to do with all those bulletin boards calling for my creativity) –to a small bout of depression over not being able to button my favorite skirt (I…
Sometimes all of these things happen in 24 hours: You wig out about money and then go into a deep depression because you think you can’t afford for you and your husband to take your son to college. You say you will stay home. You completely despair and think all of life is nothing but…
That boy of mine graduates in three days, and my mother will be here in 13 hours. The sheets on her bed are still dirty, and I haven’t dusted yet, although she promises she doesn’t care what my house looks like. You know how it is, though? So if you’ll allow me to pull up…
There is a window in the door of my classroom, and I’m going to have you look through it to watch my class over this last month. We have been doing one thing. Verb conjugations. Day after day after day the same thing, in preparation for their final exam. First the students had to be…
Yesterday I thought my brain or my heart might explode. One or the other or possibly both simultaneously. It’s when you have your baby about to graduate. At the same time you sit in a courtroom to watch your friends officially adopt their 4-year-old foster son. At the same time your job changes a bit…
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