Ahhh….our new normal…our new life. Parenting while working while teaching while cooking while consoling while worrying while staying at home
I’m not much of a napper…I tend to be go, go, go until about 9PM when if I stop moving for a minute, I crash into a deep sleep. I...
I am a perfectionist. On the enneagram scale a definite type 1. Many enneagram texts name Type 1, “The Reformer,” however, I’m pretty...
I vowed to myself that this would never happen…but, here it is, it is happening. I’m standing in the bathroom with my 3.5-year-old in...
“You have two choices…a good choice and a bad choice. Your good choice is to let it go, your bad choice is to hold it in. Which will it...
“What are you working on?” My mentor asked. “I am working on a presentation I have to give next weekend.” I said. (With a smile, because...
One day a year I stop my lecture mid class and don a bathrobe. You read that correctly…a bathrobe. I push that little black-out button on...
I was back in college again and riding in a car with my parents. We were heading to one of my volleyball matches, but instead of the game...
My first, first author publication took 7 years to write and be published. 7 years. I started data collection in 2014 as a full-time...
It was my night at the dinner table, and I had a plan. You see every night of the week, my parents assigned one family member as the...
Part 2: Why People Aren't Asking Questions There I sat in a cold lecture hall as a second year PT student in utter shock. The room was...
“…and that’s all there is to it. It’s pretty easy once you get the hang of it. Do you have any questions?” She said. This statement...
When I was an undergraduate student, I had this recurring dream that I missed an entire semester of an English class. The first part of...
Racing heart, sweaty palms, shallow and rapid breathing, dry mouth, and dilated pupils. A recent release of adrenaline is pumping through...
I vividly remember walking out of her office after our first meeting with an abnormal amount of confidence. I had just met with an...
12:06 AM – A tiny hand nudges my shoulder cuing me to wake-up and let him in my bed. I obliged by helping him into bed and let him stay...
“Put both hands together, palm to palm, up next to your brain. Go ahead…physically do it,” my professor stated. So, I look around the...
It’s Monday at 8AM and I see on my planner I have a paper due Saturday at midnight. That should be no problem to complete, right? Six...
I have a life checklist. You know the one where you lay out your entire life and then check the boxes once you’ve accomplished it. Get a...
When I was in high school, I was 5’11 and 115 lbs. I was long and lean, basically just skin and bones. I had legs that went for days and...
