Almost five years ago, I got the news that my job had been eliminated. Thanks to lack of funding, a change in curricular direction, and a few other various and sundry reasons, I was no longer employed at the school at which I’d worked. I was devastated. Was I a good teacher? Had I done [...]
No, I’m not announcing anything. But, I spent a great weekend away with a group of girlfriends and took a boatload of photos. Back in April, I had a couple of photo shoots with a couple of the same people, one of which was a maternity shoot. Well, as it tends to happen, Melissa had [...]
I wasn’t going to do a 2011 “Best Of What’s for Dinner” post for a few reasons, but mainly, and completely honestly, I don’t particularly want to look back on 2011. It started out with the absolutely worst week of my life so far. Starting the year out with the death of my dad was [...]
TGIF! I hope you all had a wonderful week, and I for one, am glad that it’s over and we’re one week closer to the holidays! I have to admit though, its quite odd that it hasn’t snowed yet. I’m not going to jinx it, but I’m rather weirded out by the fact that there [...]
The blogging community is an incredibly cool thing. Thanks to my little blog, I’ve been lucky enough to meet some of the most amazing and wonderful people. Some people may think its weird that I met these people <gasp> online and now consider them some of my closest friends. Sometimes, I’ll read a blog and [...]
After a far-too-long hiatus, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pans met for what I’m calling PansGiving, or, in other words, The Traveling Pans Does Thanksgiving. It was a remarkable spread of quite phenomenal food from horseradish-cranberry sauce to squash spaetzle, and as always, the company trumped the food. We gathered first in Liz’s kitchen and [...]