Pink Giraffe Musing

Stress is bad for us.   There are a lot of things in my life that are stressful.  I am not alone in this.  I am sure you can relate.  It seems that middle age comes with more stress that I could have ever dreamed existed. It is downright depressing some days when I take in the full weight of it all.  I see my friends balancing kids, sports, homework, demanding jobs, and aging parents needing care.  I have friends and know of children battling cancer.  Some struggle with kids doing poorly in school and need tutors they cannot afford.  There is car trouble, car accidents, broken appliances, broken hearts and homes, and then there is work.  For many of us work is the biggest stress producer of them all. If you are lucky you love your job.  But love it or hate it we all NEED our jobs to pay for the mortgage, car payments, car repairs, the new microwave, calculus tutor, and of course, margaritas. Over the past 6 years, I have w...

I think I am an unusual teacher.  I hated high school.  Not basketball, musicals, chorus, art or dances, just the rest of it. Maybe not hated.  I think I was just disinterested in most of what I was required to learn. Indifferent perhaps?  Sometimes I just opted to take a C rather than study something I didn't really care about.  Looking back, I guess it was bad and I do wish I had a better recall of history, but I can't say it has held me back in my life.  Let's just say I was never one of those little girls who wanted to be a teacher her whole life. While I "hated" school, I loved art.  And lucky for me, my Junior and Senior year, it was a double period.  My high school also offered Humanities, so that was another class that I found interesting and meaningful (art, history, literature and music).  Today, there are kids at every school just like me.  Students who sit through biology, and algebra, and whatever else the state says they ...