Hi, everyone! Feeling my way back to the blog. It’s funny how there are moments (years) in life when I feel completely underwater with everything I have to do. And others (moments) when I feel like I have reserves of energy and I get more done than I thought possible. These shifts in life are […]
Author: dknox
When I read these words this week, I felt two sides of me react simultaneously. “Yes!” the Warrior Goddess in training said. My child just rolled her eyes. “Yeah, right!” was the implied response. Today I’m leaning a bit more toward my WG self. But there are days, weeks, longer even, when I am […]
Typing the title, I’m feeling a little not right, because the last blog I wrote was in August of 2021, and then I was hoping to be writing regularly. And that makes me feel guilty. Like I have failed. The last five years have been challenge. In my more optimistic (healthy?) moments, I lean into […]
It has been a long time since I have posted anything. I had a hard time writing for the last four years. I felt so weighed down by grief, the cruelty of people, and then Covid. But I am feeling the urge, again, finally, to return to writing and expressing. I’d like to start out […]
I feel like I’ve been sick for-ever! And I don’t like it. I don’t think. No, I don’t like it. Except… I can remember being a new mom and wishing I could have a horrible illness. Not one that would make me feel really bad. Just one bad enough that I’d have to be hospitalized […]
In the unstillness of nature, I find peace. In the maps on her bak, I sometimes find my way. Other times, the wind laughs, the maps reform as mazes, and I am blissfully lost.
The whole world is reeling, or it should be, from the school shooting that took place on Valentine’s Day, 2018. 17 people died in the Parkland, Florida shooting, 14 students, mostly 9th graders, and three teachers, each of whom was rushing to help or actually shielding kids from bullets with their own body. It was […]
In June, I went through a mid-life crisis. There was no ridiculous sports cars. I didn’t leave my partner for someone younger. But I did experience all the symptoms of restlessness and anxiety. And it wasn’t the first time. What used to simply be called a mid-life crisis, has matured to a “mid-life crisis of identity.” On […]
Summer is a blessing to teachers! In addition to the increased bone and emotional strength from the sun, a more healthy urinary tract and some much needed rest, summer brings time to do something almost unheard of during the nine months of the school year – read for pleasure! Yummy! Sometimes the only thing that […]
June is hard for me. As the season changes and the weather brightens, I find myself every year in a bit of a funk. My dad died in June, the day before Father’s Day, fourteen years ago, and I still grieve his loss. We all know, Americans don’t do death well, and I am an […]
Just a woman trying to figure this all out.