In Search of: A Little Self-Care

Well.  Tomorrow is D-Day.  I head back to work.  Although I’ve been checking my email like a mad-woman, I still haven’t heard from my principal.  So we’ll see how that goes.  In the meantime, I got a bunch of work done on my lesson plans and curriculum.  If things don’t work out, it won’t be [...]

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Are You There, Universe? It’s Me, Heather.

I spent the evening hanging out at my favorite tea shop.  Well, I’m starting to second guess that statement.  The place is awesome, but when I went back for my usual refill of hot water, the owner gave me a hard time.  Um.  Dude.  I come here all the time.  I always buy a full [...]

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What Matters is This: Happiness

These days, I am acutely aware of how much I relish my free time. One thing I learned during my year off from work is that I love to do things I want to do.  I have a ton a personal interests that have nothing to do with my job.  And so, as I have [...]

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My Time to Fly

This last year or so, I’ve been talking a lot about traveling out of the country. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do.  I can’t explain it, really.  The draw. It eats at me.  I daydream about spending months in developing countries.  I do internet research.  I make lists.  I get butterflies in my stomach [...]

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My First Week Away from the Day Job

As I posted on Facebook last week, I seriously have the most awesome friends.  I’ve been so surprised and amazed by all the support I’ve gotten as I’ve started this new journey and officially left my day job.  Holy crap, can you believe I actually did it? Part of me thinks I’m just on vacation.  [...]

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Five Days and Counting

Yes, that’s right — only five days left sitting at this desk!  I’m ecstatic.  I’ve never been a lover of Mondays.  But I must say, this might be the best Monday yet. Although I’ve had a few freak out, I-can’t-believe-I-just-quit-my-job, moments — it all actually feels really good.  For the first time in my life, [...]

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Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow (Not)

departure peaceful, joyful climbing, soaring, creating living life on purpose free ———————————————————————————— This is what I’ve been waiting for the past several months.  I was scared to death.  (Well, maybe not to death.  I’m being a little dramatic here.)  But I took a deep breath, walked into my boss’s office and told her that I’m [...]

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Rambling Along

Wow–I can’t seem to get my mind to focus on much of anything today.  I’m having the hardest time at work in my attempts to actually get something accomplished.  I have all this pent up energy and yet don’t seem to want to use it toward anything productive.  Sometimes you just have to give in [...]

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Everything I Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten

I have been struggling to find something positive to blog about today. I generally try to keep my writing optimistic as I don’t like to bring other people down if I’m having a bad day, and who wants to listen to me whine anyway? But today, I’ve just got to get this off my chest. [...]

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A Dreamer

Lately I’ve been putting a lot of time and thought into what it is I want to do with my life, particularly as far as my career goes. Well, I suppose that was how this blog started, so that shouldn’t surprise you. I guess what I mean, is I’ve been making some headway in this [...]

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