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I am the mom of an active four year old and a happy little four month old. I currently work full-time as a Branding & Communications Manager for a financial services company as well as an adjunct professor for a local community college where I teach online organizational communication classes. I've been happily married for almost nine years now, we are a family on the go constantly traveling to visit family, friends or just for leisure but we enjoy the craziness.
 Last night I had dinner with the most fabulous ladies you could meet - I am lucky. They are all amazing in their own way and I look forward to seeing them and just listening. That's me among these ladies, I listen alot and just take it in and I love that...the ... Read more...
It is just a matter of days, maybe a week or two until the baby comes and as the day gets closer I realize how lucky I am. A few weekends ago my dear friends threw a luncheon for one of my fabulous friends and myself. I could not believe all of the ... Read more...
Wow, my last entry was back in January. I had just found out I was pregnant with our second child, we were about to buy a new house and I was getting ready to teach my first face-to-face undergrad course. Needless to say, I’ve been busy. It’s a boy and I ... Read more...
I am overwhelmed right now, so much that so that I feel I can’t even breathe at times. We sold our home, bought another and will be moving within the next month and a half. I am terrified we have gotten in over our heads, but I know we’ ... Read more...
It is snowing like you would not believe here. The overly pessimistic local “storm team” predicted it and boy are they excited that their prediction was actually right! As we all watched the snow come down non-stop from lunchtime on, it ... Read more...
The phone rang at 12:30 a.m. the other night and it was my mom telling me she was in the hospital. She was okay, but having chest pains and trouble breathing. I was in a fog, still asleep and felt as if it was a dream. I tossed and turned all night ... Read more...
We’ve all heard someone say it or said it ourselves - “I wish kids came with instructions.” But really, do we? Of course we don’t…it would just be one more thing for us to follow, one more schedule and one more set of ... Read more...
“Gettin’ on the plane, going to war” was the last text message I received from my sister on Saturday as she left for her first deployment to Afganistan. As I type those words they still make my heart sink and give me a lump in my throat. My sister ... Read more...
As I reflected on some of my “ah-ha” moments of teaching and learning I could think of many incidents in my academic career, but soon realized how much of my life the teaching and learning philosophies I’ve been studying flow through my day-to-day ... Read more...