One of the teachers recently asked me if I’m homesick. But she asked it as a statement, “Oh, you must be so homesick.” And I answered yes without a lot of explanation. I am homesick, but for things that don’t exist anymore– so I guess it’s more nostalia than anything else. I am homesick for…

I could be working, but instead will post the entry I wrote in my notebook while my kids were taking their Arkansas field test yesterday. It’s a testimony of love for 117 babies. Oh, and before that, I’m talleying up votes right now, because my kids get to use their class points on Friday (we…

Slowly, it accumulates. Even though I slept for ten hours on Friday night, I feel as if I have been running and running. Ironically, the feeling makes me want to go running, because that has been my primary method of tackling all mental blocks: frustration, depression, loneliness, apathy. I run, and run, and run. It’s a…

There is a pretty distinct feeling of settling. There were a few weeks of mania, where I could not sleep past 5:30 even if I tried. Then there were two weeks of lethargy and apathy, when I did what I could to get by and slept for the rest of the time. Now I’m back…