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Life with the Becks
Life with the Becks … as we cruised down the road last weekend, surrounded by families kicking off their summer, pulling their boats and campers and RVs and I was drawn back to the arrival of the motor home in our lives … and it was a bit like the Big Bang … You see… Continue reading
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Spring Break, Brownies and a 3D Printer
Life with boys … Spring Break has come and gone … and so has the boy and the black cat … which Zeus is just fine with … managed to fit in some laughs … games … tv shows … lunch with Grandma and Grandpa … taxes … 4 am Pokémon card evaluation … laundry… Continue reading
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Life with boys … private edition — 2025
Life with boys … private edition … down the hall, the boy is chatting with friends via the newly rediscovered game, Minecraft … it is surreal … this is the boy who did not really have a tribe … the same boy who could not tell you the names of the boys in his patrol… Continue reading
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Closing the Webster Teaching Chapter
Sometimes a chapter ends with a ceremony. Sometimes it ends with an email about mandatory training. In February 2025, Webster sent its annual training reminder to active adjunct instructors. By then I was working full-time as a Learning Designer at Maryville, and I knew I was not going back to teaching there. So I wrote… Continue reading
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For Krista, My Fellow Wrestling Mom
Life with boys … this one has been writing itself in my head for a week now, and I’ve been afraid to commit it to actual words because I know it will wreck me … But if I don’t, that will destroy me … and I really need some sleep … Last weekend, I learned… Continue reading
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Finding My Tribe
Life with boys … before there was a life with boys, there was a girl who drained her bank account to rent a moving truck to move across the country … and it was hard … finding my place in St. Louis took a long time … I tried to make connections with sorority alumnae… Continue reading
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The Other Side of Move-In Day
Life with boys … my feeds have been full of questions about the best dorm room stuff … what kind of computer for this major or that … how many IKEA bags they will need … and now I am seeing all of those choices in place as the images of move-in day start to… Continue reading
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Once upon a time I had a bag of ping pong balls …
Life with boys … once upon a time I had a bag of ping pong balls … Continue reading
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I Found the Full-Time Job
After a very long stretch of applications, interviews, freelance work, adjunct teaching and trying to figure out what came next, I finally found the full-time job. On June 14, Maryville University offered me a position as a Learning Designer. Three days later, after asking what felt like a million practical questions, I sent the sentence… Continue reading
About Me
I started this site so my mom could get news about her grandkids without me having to walk her through the process of trying to open and email attachment several times a week. Since then she has passed away and I’ve fallen off the blog wagon, but I’m inspired to pick it up again now.
