Eight years ago today, instead of informing everyone I’d “retired” from public school teaching, I simply said, “I am no longer in the institution.” And as I had taught on the Long Beach Peninsula for 29 of my 30 years, I was somewhat of an “institution” here myself,...
Sometimes we can care deeply about someone and still not be able to be in a full-time, boyfriend/girlfriend, exclusive and committed relationship with them. It’s happened to me more than once. It didn’t mean I didn’t love them, it simply meant that I held back a part...
The title did not originate with me, but I don’t think it originated with the woman on the Dr. Oz show who talked about this concept a couple weeks ago either, so I feel no particular obligation to attribute it. Titles can’t be copyrighted anyway. But a good idea is...
I’ve discovered another sad fact about my metabolism. Not only is it the world’s slowest and most efficient calorie hoarder, but apparently it’s going to take incredible daily diligence for me to stay within my self-proclaimed “weight maintenance range. Allowing...
“If there’s a gold tabby in the group,” I’d hinted to Rick several weeks prior to the kittens’ birth, “you could name him Theo.” “Him or her, Theo would work,” Rick agreed. And when the Mama cat gave birth to her litter of six kittens, the very first...
