I recently watched a video that someone posted on fb about how lobsters grow. I know what you’re thinking… why do I care about lobsters and how they grow?Because it’s actually an outstanding analogy for us humans. Spoiler alert: the impetus for the growth is stress/pain. The video is one and a half minutes long […]
Browsing Category: high school/graduation
What do you sound like?
Remember the Charlie Brown cartoons? How an adult was always represented by a disembodied voice that sounded like WAH Wha, wha…? During summer freshman move in weekend, my soon to be a senior daughter and her boyfriend were enjoying a melt from Merv’s (one of life’s true pleasures- if you’re ever in Tallahassee be sure […]
TBT and What I Know Now
Facebook has started this cute thing lately where it shows a picture from your news feed anywhere from 1-8 years ago with the catchy and captivating tag line: “see your memories”. Here’s one that showed up last week from four years ago: I couldn’t imagine what it would be like when my baby bird flew […]
No Wonder it’s so hard!
It’s Crunch Time! I remember not so fondly this time of year when my kids were trying to decide where to go to college. Along with the usual senior year angst and anxiety about all the impending changes ( mostly mine, not theirs) this indecision was a most unwelcome guest. I think I had the […]