It rained this morning while I was out running. I started to think about the flooding. My friends in the Saratoga area, some still without power. I began wondering if they were also getting rained on...followed by racing worry, worry, worry ( Read more... )

I don't know if anyone will remember me, but here I am an (in)frequent lurker. Back because I miss you all-bunches and heaps and loads of missing. Miss reading about people who write. Miss the positive energy I found here. Miss the funny things written. The bitchy things are my favorite by far. The raw honesty in some journals. I miss it all ( Read more... )

As a girl who experienced traumatic and unwanted sexual abuse I want to ad my support to the many other voices in support of the book Speak ( Read more... )

Last night was spent surrounded by my very good friend and a group she helped organize of intelligent, out-spoken, powerful women who manage several at risk youth programs in the Syracuse NY area. It was an honor to be at the table with this group of women ( Read more... )

Some famous french guy with an insanely long and difficult name said something like this a very long long time ago (I found 20 different versions when I tried googling this phrase memorized eons ago so this may or may not be exactly word for word what he said but I am loosing you... so here it is) "The only thing constant in life is change." - ( Read more... )

Don't tell me you haven't considered it.


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Heading out the door as soon as I get a  parental back up to relieve me of my mommy duties to leave this crazy house and write at Barnes and Noble. Unfortunately this writing is causing me to pull my hair out. I have chewed my fingernails to the quick and I am ready to cry. Okay I lied, I may have cried already. I may have cried like a few times, ( Read more... )

Time for me to play catch up after a rough month and deal with some personal matters ( Read more... )

Very sorry, had to get that out there-it's not for anyone here-it's my RAWR. Since my RAWR hasn't worked with my children. I refused to clean the house today and they are supposed to be picking up after themselves. A bomb going off would look better then the current state that is my kitchen. Also those nerf guns suck for many reasons but the top of ( Read more... )

I am sorry for being a bad LJ friend as of late. It's been SPRING for  a week and I've spent it out running, playing and enjoying the sun despite the slushy 4 feet of snow that is still piled in our front and back yard. Also I'm crazy busy. We are gearing up for our first school visits next week ( Read more... )