Just a girl, her life, and the details.
Posted in crafty stuff, ponderings on Oct 9th, 2009
A few months ago, when we had just gotten back to Virginia and found our new house, I set out on the quest to find a dining room table. And, I was successful! I found a great table for a great price. I just needed to find the right chairs. And, I did.
This is the [...]
Posted in ponderings on Jul 9th, 2009
Recently, I have been noticing more than a fair share of errors (typos, misspellings, grammar mistakes) in the posts of the many blogs I read. I don’t know if they have always been there, if people get more lax during the summer, or if I am more sensitive to mistakes because I am not teaching [...]
Posted in intentions, ponderings on Nov 6th, 2008
I didn’t talk about politics before now because I knew that the people I love most in the world, and read my words here, and I didn’t necessarily agree on the path for this country. And, I am most certain, with the events of the last few days, that most of the people I love [...]
Posted in intentions, my word, ponderings on Sep 12th, 2008
(photo borrowed from Brene)
For the last few days, I have been working on a post with the original title up there. I had my dilemma all laid out. I explained that I am between a place of should and want in my life, and I feel run over by my to do list of what [...]
Posted in crafty stuff, intentions, ponderings on Sep 6th, 2008
I am one of those “I could do that people.” I recently caved in and finally bought some of those lampwork beads that I posted about here, and while I was looking through the list of all she had for sale, I couldn’t help but think to myself, “I wonder how you make those.” So, [...]
Posted in intentions, my word, ponderings on Jul 19th, 2008
On the whole, I would like to say that I am a happy person. Some people in my life might not agree on a day-to-day basis, but I do try to be happy overall. In other words, happiness is my goal. I do not want to be stuck living a life where I am always [...]
Posted in ponderings, teaching on Apr 12th, 2008
Just thought that I would share a new post I just put up on my Intro to Lit class’s blog here as well!
Posted in crafty stuff, imperfection, intentions, learning, my word, ponderings on Mar 27th, 2008
Christine Kane just posted a great new something to her blog called “56 Things You Can Toss Out Now.” It is a great list of things that you can definitely get rid of, and I particularly like it because she so simply lays out at the start of her list why we hold onto things: [...]
Posted in ponderings, professional on Feb 12th, 2008
Well, I am sitting in our union on campus because there was some miscommunication about a meeting that I thought that I needed to be at right now, and instead of walking back to my office in the frigid cold outside, I thought that I would just sit and write for a little instead. [...]
Posted in imperfection, intentions, my word, ponderings on Jan 20th, 2008
I think that I found my word for this year!
