You won’t believe this. Seriously.

It has been a year and a half since I last seen/spoke to my father. A couple of days ago I found a voice mail message from him on my phone. Sadly, my grandmother had passed away. When I called him back, I was told something much more surprising. I have [...]

Math class homework.

It’s been awhile since I’ve taken a course with weekly work given that is actually called ‘homework.’ Normally the professors use what I refer to as college-speak. They give us ‘assignments’ or ‘papers’ or ‘investigations’ or ‘projects’ or ‘observations’ or ‘reports’ or, well, you get the idea. But no matter what the professors [...]

I always get labeled the “smart” one.

Every single semester, without fail, I get labeled the “smart” one. Last semester it was most clear in my biology class. I’d be sitting at lab quietly doing my work, and in many cases correcting my lab partners work cause she couldn’t even do basic math correctly even with a calculator in hand, [...]

Snow seriously messes up my day.

I had a huge day planned today. Today is the second day of the semester, and I had two classes today. One from 9:30am to 10:45am, and another from 12:30pm to 3:00pm. Aidan and Zoe were supposed to go to daycare. Alex had school. After school, was the homework hour, [...]

The one where I admit I’m proud of him.

Though my husband would disagree with me, I still say that he hid the fact that he was a ham radio operator from me until after we were married. And it isn’t any secret that his volunteering for everything can drive me batty, to the point where I’ve screamed and cried at him “But [...]