Last week I was having trouble sleeping through the night. I was waking up for three or four hours each night. The last several days, I’ve been catching up, often sleeping well past 9:00 am, and generally having a sluggish start to my day. But, that’s just the microcosm. On a larger level, the start to our three months in […]

I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. Never have. I get it, but I don’t really find this a particularly meaningful time of year to commit to changes. Maybe that’s because I’ve always lived on an academic calendar–even the years I wasn’t a student or a teacher, Jessica was, so I never really got off that rhythm completely. But, this year, […]

Welcome back for the last (I think) post on my brief sojourn in New York. I wanted to end with my favorite part of being there…which was mostly simply the fact of being there. We walked along the rivers, through the parks, up one side of Manhattan and down the other and all over in between, not to mention some […]