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At the Foot of the Stairs: Off to a great start
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At the Foot of the Stairs. Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Off to a great start. So, anyway. Back. Still here. But I'm not even sure why I started writing this, because I'm so bored. I don't feel like I'm depressed, but I could be wrong. I do these little checklists: When was the last time you had fun/felt happy? Yesterday) Can you have fun/feel happy? Yes) Are you sleeping too much because you feel like hiding? Sometimes, but not this week) Is there anything you're interested in/looking forward to? Even skyd...
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At the Foot of the Stairs: November 2014
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At the Foot of the Stairs. Tuesday, November 4, 2014. The universe is continually devising innovative and unexpected ways of humiliating me. Last week, it hit my car with a bus while I was in it (school bus; grazed me) and knocked off my license plate and scratched the hell out of my bumper, but the car is drivable. And I need to call my insurance team and schedule an appointment for repairs. It's just one more thing. I said, "Can you please come tell my students that? My eyebrows nearly shot off my head...
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At the Foot of the Stairs: Self Love (rated G)
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At the Foot of the Stairs. Friday, October 24, 2014. Self Love (rated G). I generally love teaching, but this was nagging at me. I finally had to shake myself and have a little come to Jesus meeting with myself. "Look at how many students you still keep in touch with," I told myself. I decided that I was going to have to approach the situation the way I approach dating:. Topics that were covered in class today were:. Assessment tools and how the criteria for them are created;. Hook, by Blues Traveler;.
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At the Foot of the Stairs: May 2012
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At the Foot of the Stairs. Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. So, I am driving down to Columbia today with Christian to go see his endocrinologist. We are having a great chat in the car, talking about lots of things. At one point, he asked me if it was bothering me that he was asking me so many questions. No, Christian. I'm your mother. You can ask me anything.". Have you ever slept with a woman? Tuesday, May 8, 2012. Such is life without a wife or kids to do the dishes.
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At the Foot of the Stairs: OK Stupid
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At the Foot of the Stairs. Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Because she didn't want me to watch it. It is nothing short of a miracle that I have been able to be open, matter-of-fact, and level-headed about talking about sex with my children. I remember one Mormon woman I knew when I was engaged to my first husband. She said to me, "You know, premarital sex is only fun because it's forbidden.". It takes a very determined sort of naivety to ask questions like that. October 15, 2014 at 3:03 PM. Cant wait to see...
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At the Foot of the Stairs: April 2012
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At the Foot of the Stairs. Wednesday, April 25, 2012. A Chance Gardner kind of week. So, today was interesting. Actually, there have been a few interesting things this week. I know that Kathy Howe. Is a big fan of when I use bullet points, so Kathy? This is for you. 1 Twice in the past ten days or so, I have gotten to sit in the co-pilot's seat of the little eight-seater Cessna that flies between Kirksville and St. Louis. Actually, I lie. I am not sure it's a Cessna. The pics were supposed. But I don't w...
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At the Foot of the Stairs: Mercury in Retrograde
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At the Foot of the Stairs. Tuesday, November 4, 2014. The universe is continually devising innovative and unexpected ways of humiliating me. Last week, it hit my car with a bus while I was in it (school bus; grazed me) and knocked off my license plate and scratched the hell out of my bumper, but the car is drivable. And I need to call my insurance team and schedule an appointment for repairs. It's just one more thing. I said, "Can you please come tell my students that? My eyebrows nearly shot off my head...
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At the Foot of the Stairs: May 2011
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At the Foot of the Stairs. Thursday, May 12, 2011. Walking on his own grave. Things have been very stressful and intense. I am deliberately not writing about it, because I need time and space from it. As I have said earlier about blogging: It happens in real time, so sometimes you have to take a breath and process and think and rest before you write about things. And sometimes you have to not write about them at all. Yesterday we bought their cemetery plots, and here are some pictures. I am a Mom and I S...
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At the Foot of the Stairs: June 2011
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At the Foot of the Stairs. Wednesday, June 15, 2011. I am coming undone. During the past month, I've experienced ugly family blowups, orchestrated the fastest cross-country move on the planet, sent my husband off for a five-week-dream-come-true trip to the Middle East, and for just one night got out of town last week to Iowa to see some friends. For the past three days (and the past ten, with the perfect vision of hindsight), my dad has begun a rapid decline. They have been here for, what, a month? We go...
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