… This doesn’t normally happen to me. It’s 3:45 in the morning. I’m in Johannesburg. I tried sleeping; not happening. Maybe it’s the new-place-different-country-not- my-bed thing. Anyhow, so I’m up. I’m writing. These are 3 am thoughts, unfiltered (because I’m hoping I will be too sleepy to actually edit them in 30 minutes from now). [...]
Tags: #MicroFlicksMalawi., finding middle ground., marriage.
I think it’s strategic for us to have saved “my biggest flaw” for the second to last day of #Janblogaday. It means I’ve had weeks to mentally prepare for this post. Not weeks of psychological torment at the idea I’d have to write about my short-comings. But weeks of not knowing what I’d write about. [...]
Tags: #Janblogaday, link ups.
Day 27 of #Janblogaday: Regret. I don’t regret anything in my life. I believe that every experience I’ve had, all my mistakes, all my successes have been for a reason. And if nothing else, they’ve helped to guide me and shape me in life and have taught me valuable lessons I wouldn’t want to do over [...]
Tags: #Janblogaday, conversations., link ups., original thoughts.
For day 24 of #Janblogaday‘s ”teachers” topic, I’ve asked a few school teachers I know for a few words on “a teacher is…” Although its no extraordinary discovery, I found that these teachers (in different schools, teaching different age groups, across states and transcending their number of years of experience) share something quite special: a teacherhood — [...]
Tags: #Janblogaday, a lasting difference., leadership., link ups.
A very appropriate topic for day 12 of #Janblogaday: Recovery. Today, three years ago, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the island nation of Haiti… the country’s worst earthquake in 200 years affecting more than 3 million people. (Writing from LAX on my phone… forgive any mistakes). The Haiti earthquake changed me in a whole lot of [...]
A little trip down memory lane for day ten of #Janblogaday. My great-grandma Jane was the epitome of elegance — she wore dark velvet dresses with shoulder pads and beautiful antique jewelry that glimmered like her eyes. She always had a knitted afghan shawl draped around her slouchy and slim 90-year-old frame. Her cheek bones [...]
Tags: #Janblogaday, family., link ups.
