It's been a while...where to begin?  So much has been happening with my family and at work/school over the past month that it's been difficult just to carve out time for sleeping much less anything as

The new semester started this week - woohoo!  I'm teaching four courses: Intro to Sociology; Aging and Society; Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families; and Gerontology.  Three of my classe

I'm in one of my "moods" today.  I suppose one could call it reflective...that's a nice way of putting it, but melancholy might be more appropriate.  I get this way from time to time.  Itchy feet is w

I received an interesting phone call yesterday evening from a dear friend.  She's the director of a local nonprofit agency that I have been volunteering with for more than 10 years.  At first, it seem

Sometimes I overextend myself.  I guess we all do it.  I've been getting tired lately, I mean really, really tired.  If I sleep beyond 5:30 a.m. on a weekday, it's big news in my house.  I'm a morning

The Catholic effort to convert Witches convinced me to blog about how I spent my Thursday and Friday last week.  In that blog post, the subject of those "The truth about (insert whatever is non-Xtian

I think I'm finally crawling out from under my percocet-induced haze.  I detest medications, but I've been in a lot of pain so I took them as needed.  Apparently, my bladder is "settling" without the

Hubby took one of his vacation days to take me back to the doctor for my first post-op check up.  Our main roads are clear, but the secondary and unpaved roads here are still covered in snow and ice. 

As most of my lovely friends here on WB know, I am due to have surgery on Friday.  I'm definitely NOT looking forward to this procedure because I have an unnatural fear of being put under anesthesia e

It never ceases to amaze me how things come full circle.  I blogged a couple of weeks ago about my former boss who was caught embezzling from the nonprofit I used to work for.  I received two phone ca