I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.
It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate.
~I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I mean, I just can't believe it. It's like a whole new dimension in emotion that I've never experienced. ~
I have an amazing team, and we find people who resonate with us, but sometimes our scope is still small because we are a pretty small group and we have so much work to do. We get approached a lot.
I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.
I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.
Is it better not to drink alcohol and eat fried food and not have cheese and never have a cigarette at a party? Of course, but that's just not life.
I spend quite a bit of time thinking about my students. I look at them, at their work, I listen to what they tell me, and try to figure out who they might become in the best of all possible worlds. This is not easy. Students try to give you clues; sometimes they look at you as if imploring you to understand something about them that they don't yet have the means to articulate. How can one succeed at this? And how can one do it 20 times over for all the students in a class? It's impossible, of course. I know this, but I try anyway. It's tiring.
Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.
Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.
I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.