Endless Pursuit for Mom of the Year

If you want to cure the world, don’t emanate fear, emanate love.  - Ram Dass Many a blog post has started with "what a week!" Never did I have any idea that would be truer than it is now.   When the COVID-19 pandemic began, I sat down to write thinking it would be, at a minimum, interesting to look back on some day. Here we are, several days later, and I'm still writing, so I just keep adding until I finally find time to post.  Day 1 It's Monday. It's the first day of spring break and I got up like any other day to go to work. Things are stuck between normal and what is a semi-new normal. The university I work for has moved classes to online instruction through part of April. I expected a vacant campus, but not for how long this could be.  I'm getting used to having a plan for the day and then promptly throwing that plan out the window about 45 minutes into my workday. The girls are happy it is spring break and looking forward to sleeping in. I ...

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.  - Zig Ziglar Recently, I've been hunting through our home for a blue folder. It seems silly. Honestly, who needs a blue folder that bad?  This particular blue folder contains the only remaining print outs of the stories I wrote from my college creative writing courses. They say you always remember the precise moment you fall in love with something. Your spouse, your first born, perhaps even a hobby. For me, I remember the precise moment I fell in love with writing.   It was an "optional" course on a creative track to achieve my undergraduate degree. I had other options but was drawn to writing for some reason. I knew from the first day I entered my non-fiction class, it would be my favorite. I can remember the classroom like it was yesterday, a lawnmower running in the distance and the smell of freshly mowed grass wafting in the windows. Professor of the year entered the room with a flair I'd ne...