Pet Peeves & Perspectives

The fall is without a doubt my favorite season, my birthday, Halloween and Thanksgiving, 3 of the best days of the year happen in the fall.  I love watching the leaves change color and the beginning of the school year ( yes, I know school starts in the season of summer) and the cooler autumn [...]

So I want to call for a shopping revolution.  Let’s not purchase gift cards this year.  We can send a message to the retailers that gift cards should not expire and we should get the cash value when there is less than$5 left on the card, heck I would be willing to get the cash [...]

Can I tell you how much I despise daylight savings time?  I am one of those people that doesn’t like having to adjust to the change in time.  I like my sleep, love it in fact, losing an hour of it for no good reason bothers me.  And really what is the point of daylight [...]

It has come to my attention that most people confuse the terms fair and equal.  I can see how one might confuse them, they are similar and yet very different.  As a special education teacher I was intimately aware of the difference and it was my responsibility to educate others, mostly other teachers, about the [...]

I am so not a political person.  I follow politics like I follow the news, I don’t.  The news that I know about, I found out on Yahoo or someone else told me about.  I don’t subscribe to a newspaper and I don’t watch the news,  I stopped after 9/11.  I realized that so much [...]

A great man died last week, technically last year, but you probably have never heard of him. He wasn’t a TV star or famous author. He wasn’t a celebrity chef or singer. He never starred on his own reality show, nor did he write a blog. He probably didn’t know what a blog was. He [...]

Okay,  so it’s high time my blog lived up to it’s name “Pet Peeves…”  My biggest pet peeve, the one that bugs me more than any other, is bad drivers.  Why is it that totally normal and polite people act like complete and utter idiots in the comfort and semi-privacy of their automobiles? Think about [...]

Nothing, no amount of advice or preparation, no book or magazine could fully prepare me for being a mommy. I fully enjoy this job more than any other I have had or dreamed of. I could not imagine how I would feel when I hold my daughter in my arms. If you asked me 10 [...]

Yes, it figures, I fianlly start my blog after thinking about it for months and I have a power outage.  The storm that hit the Northeast wiped out power to my home for 24 hours.  How annoying! On the other hand, as my husband and I walked through the mall yesterday, because it was warm [...]

Can a person have too many passions? Is dividing your passions still passionate? I am a person of many passions. It’s the reason why I haven’t obtained my Master’s degree and have 3 Bachelor’s degrees. I have been trying to decide on a Master’s for close to 8 years, I have even started a program [...]