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My grandfather was a man of many stories… He had stories that I hadn’t ever heard and stories that I heard over and over again. I’m certain that, like all parents, he made mistakes when he was raising my mother and her brother and her sister. My uncle was married many many many times and I grew up in a family with its own set of issues. The extremeness, in some ways, of the lives that (at least) my mom …
“The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other.” bell hooks, All About Love We are a people hardwired for connection and it’s in and through our relationships with others that we come to best know ourselves. At its heart, connection, relationships, self-awareness, and reflection are what my 30 days of 30 is all about: I get 30 days to celebrate the completion of 30 years of life and to acknowledge all of the intricacies that …
Today’s day was too full to format my post. So, here are some pictures as teasers for tomorrow’s post!
Here’s a teaser: When Debbie asked me to write a guest blog about her and Bones for their anniversary, I was honored. 2 years ago I was in their wedding —and as Debbie has written about here , at that time, our friendship was at the lowest it had been: as I look back, part of it was a huge lack of communication, both of feelings and of expectations. While I couldn’t have imagined not being in their wedding, I was …
As I walked into the classroom with Juana, all I heard was gibberish: a word here, a word there, but mostly lots of noise as the kids settled into their desks. The teacher wore jeans and a t-shirt and she quickly established order: Literature was first. The students took out these mini notebooks that looked almost like my old composition books, complete even with stickers and drawings/colors. Before the teacher began to teach, she gave the kids a talking to– …
