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Attempts at Clarity: July 2015

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My attempts at making sense of my world as a mom, a wife, a teacher, a reader and a writer. My attempts at understanding strokes, cerebral palsy, head trauma and what they mean to the learning process. Monday, July 6, 2015. Ripples that started 8 years ago, still reaching changing the coastline. It’s been awhile. Once upon a time I wanted my blog to be a share of my drive as a writer and a teacher. Everything shifted. It had to. This past year made it even more obvious to me: Kath had some major ...I liv...

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Attempts at Clarity: Traffic Circles

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My attempts at making sense of my world as a mom, a wife, a teacher, a reader and a writer. My attempts at understanding strokes, cerebral palsy, head trauma and what they mean to the learning process. Monday, May 26, 2014. Sometimes I feel like life is a giant traffic circle. I think you can almost figure out how one handles life by how they approach a traffic circle. Or at least how they handle life at this particular phase of their life anyway. How many other times during the day do they only think of...

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Attempts at Clarity: November 2014

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My attempts at making sense of my world as a mom, a wife, a teacher, a reader and a writer. My attempts at understanding strokes, cerebral palsy, head trauma and what they mean to the learning process. Tuesday, November 11, 2014. I was reading an article on my front porch this morning and it made me sob. November is always tough for me. It used to be that I struggled with this month because it is a light-less month. It feels suffocating to be in the dark so long. We brought her home. My husband named...

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Attempts at Clarity: Ripples that started 8 years ago, still reaching changing the coastline.

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My attempts at making sense of my world as a mom, a wife, a teacher, a reader and a writer. My attempts at understanding strokes, cerebral palsy, head trauma and what they mean to the learning process. Monday, July 6, 2015. Ripples that started 8 years ago, still reaching changing the coastline. It’s been awhile. Once upon a time I wanted my blog to be a share of my drive as a writer and a teacher. Everything shifted. It had to. This past year made it even more obvious to me: Kath had some major ...I liv...

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Attempts at Clarity: August 2014

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My attempts at making sense of my world as a mom, a wife, a teacher, a reader and a writer. My attempts at understanding strokes, cerebral palsy, head trauma and what they mean to the learning process. Monday, August 18, 2014. A Balancing Act of teaching.writing.and being a family. Balance is not something either one of us feels we have done well in the first 12 years of our lives. Our married lives anyway. So now, before we head into another school year, we want to have a plan. 8221; after hearing about...

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Attempts at Clarity: A Balancing Act of teaching...writing...and being a family.

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My attempts at making sense of my world as a mom, a wife, a teacher, a reader and a writer. My attempts at understanding strokes, cerebral palsy, head trauma and what they mean to the learning process. Monday, August 18, 2014. A Balancing Act of teaching.writing.and being a family. Balance is not something either one of us feels we have done well in the first 12 years of our lives. Our married lives anyway. So now, before we head into another school year, we want to have a plan. 8221; after hearing about...

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Attempts at Clarity: 100 Day Challenge

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My attempts at making sense of my world as a mom, a wife, a teacher, a reader and a writer. My attempts at understanding strokes, cerebral palsy, head trauma and what they mean to the learning process. Monday, January 20, 2014. To co-advise A World of Difference (an anti-bullying group that includes training and presenting in various classes); to be an advisor for a new group called Unified Sports that is about having students with disabilities play on a high school team with 'regular' eduction students.

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Attempts at Clarity: What does summer mean?

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My attempts at making sense of my world as a mom, a wife, a teacher, a reader and a writer. My attempts at understanding strokes, cerebral palsy, head trauma and what they mean to the learning process. Saturday, July 5, 2014. What does summer mean? Summer means that I can think about my family foremost.and not my students, state ed, grading and the assorted groups I advise. Summer means I can clean my frat-house-like house. Summer means being able to go to the bathroom when I actually need to. This summe...

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Attempts at Clarity: December 2014

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My attempts at making sense of my world as a mom, a wife, a teacher, a reader and a writer. My attempts at understanding strokes, cerebral palsy, head trauma and what they mean to the learning process. Tuesday, December 9, 2014. This was the speech I was asked to give at the Women's Business Council of the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber today. This is what I said. Thank you for welcoming me here today to hear what the Bus Stop Club means to my family and so many other families. But 8 years ago my son, N...