Live With Flair

It’s discouraging to lose weight when you  age because it’s a slow change. It’s a pound a week–maybe.  It’s discouraging to enter the teenage years

In my writing class today, we talked about our campaigns for campus change. Students observe a problem, identify root causes of that problem, and then

On the walk to school, I point out in amazement all the blue jays and finches. They fly in and out of the bare tree

I feel one special joy that comes with growing older (that I’ve thought about three or four times just this weekend). Growing older means you

Today is my 39th birthday! I feel so loved by sweet messages, gifts from friends, all sorts of goodies from my family, time to write,

Today we read the message inside a fortune cookie that says this: “The mightiest oak in a forest is just a little nut that held

I balance the 6th Annual “Boo Platter” in my hands. Former teachers cry out, “The Boo Platter! Oh, I miss the Boo Platter!” My youngest

On the blustery and dark walk to school this morning, we shuffle our feet in the damp piles of leaves that rise up like the

Today I thought about how much the ladybugs entering my home drive me crazy. They’re everywhere. In our county, the Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle (Ladybug)

I love thinking about everything that has happened to me–and everything that will happen to me–as “perfect preparation” for the future in store for me.