I am one of the oldest students in most of my classes, and it shows. Sometimes, I am out of touch with the latest technology. I don’t know the lingo.
I even look old school. I come to class each day with my backpack and sack lunch. The other students come with laptops and iPads.
Jason Mraz, 2012
Day one of my New Year’s resolution to schedule more “me time” started halfway through the month of January. Better late than never, I suppose.
“I’ve had it with him. I’ve had it with the Army. I asked him for a divorce, he said yes.”
My friend whispered the above statement into the phone for fear her kids would enter the room.
Jason Mraz, 2012
"It's all fun and games until someone kicks the teacher!"
It is the email that I have been dreading since the school year began and my only hesitation with putting that littlest sweet boy in a general education classroom.
I didn’t realize how much I am out of the loop until I went back to school. I thought I knew all the latest lingo and styles. Nope. I’m now considered … old.
When I first decided to go back to school to earn my nursing degree I didn’t consider the possibility that I would be one of the oldest people in the class. But I am. And it can be hard and frustrating at times.
While I’m busy taking notes and making sure that my homework is completed on time, I hear laughter behind me, cell phones vibrating and music blaring from someone’s headset. Each is a total distraction.
And there you have it. My official diagnosis: mental obesity.
MSNBC business writer has nailed all of my symptoms: scatterbrained, fried feeling, exhausted. I thought it was the absolute lack of sleep and my five children harassing me 23 of the 24 hours a day. But no, it appears as though I am spending too much time trying to take too much stuff into my brain.
Aerosmith, 19998
We knew this day was coming, but now, it is here.
The sitter was at the house at 5:30 in the morning and I had hoped that the kids wouldn't wake up. They had said their goodbyes before bed the night before.
Congress may have avoided falling off the so-called fiscal cliff last week but the vote did little more than delay what could be a very painful drop for the Department of Defense and military families around the world.
Last week Pentagon Press secretary George E. Little told reporters the budget process is “highly problematic” for the DOD.
The American Forces Press Service reports that the cuts that would take affect if Congress fails to act by March 1.
After 20 children and their teachers were gunned down in Newtown, Conn., I spent hours tearfully watching the coverage and asking, as many Americans did, why?
I could barely look at my own nearly 6-year-old without feeling a twinge of guilt over the fact that I could scoop him up in a cascade of kisses and laughter while these families were feeling unimaginable pain.
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