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Trust Yourself
Day 1/6: GOAL CRUSHING–TRUST YOURSELF It’s really hard to believe in yourself when you feel like your life has spiraled out of control and you feel completely directionless. I have spent years waking...
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Break the Rules
Day 2/6—Break the Rules There are all these rules that we always need to abide by: don’t do this, you can’t say that, you can’t wear that, etc. We allow ourselves to be defined by these self-imposed...
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Don’t Listen to the Naysayers
Day 4/6—Don’t Listen to the Naysayers People and their opinions of us can have a profound affect on our actions. Their negativity has the ability to pollute our universe of positivity and ultimately...
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Give Back to Others
Day 6/6—Give Back to Others “Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only...
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Thirty Days of Thankful, Day 1
Now seems like as good as anytime to start chronicling my gratitude. No, I didn’t pick the month of November because it houses Thanksgiving and our obligatory time to give thanks. I picked November...
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I am Grateful for Coffee
#30DaysofThankful with #TheGirlWithPurpleHair Day 2: I am grateful for coffee Every morning, the first thing I do before even going to the bathroom is turn on my Keurig coffee maker. I make precisely...
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I am Grateful for My Husband
#30DaysofThankful with #TheGirlWithPurpleHair Day 4: I am grateful for my husband My husband Greg is my biggest fan. Every time I write a new blog post, he’s sure to be the first person to let me know...
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I am My Father’s Daughter
#30DaysofThankful with #TheGirlWithPurpleHair Day 5: I am grateful for the Lessons My Father Bestowed Upon Me My father and I have a long history of not getting along. My father, a strong,...
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Free Kindness for Everyone!
#30DaysofThankful with #TheGirlWithPurpleHair Day 10: I am grateful for the Goddess in the Parking Garage I am not going to bother discussing at length that there is a lapse in writing my Thirty Days...
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Life Happens, Learning Happens, + Life Still Happens
#30DaysofThankful with #TheGirlWithPurpleHair Day 20: I am grateful for so much that I can’t keep up If you know anything about me, you know I hate delivering anything other than the utmost of...
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Writing a Legacy Worth Leaving Behind
“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ― Aristotle Joseph and I after the graduation ceremony. Yes, I am in yoga pants, as I hustled my butt over to Westwood after teaching a double. When...
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You Can Always Go Home
As the end of the school year is within my grasp, I wanted to take the time to share something with the world. My recent years in education have been trying—to say the least. I have bounced around...
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When Life Hands You Lemons…
One of my beloved honor’s students from 2016-17. She bought us matching dolphin necklaces after our unit on marine mammals, their rights, captivity, and activism. My relationship with my job as a...
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America, The Time for Reform is NOW
In the wake of the mass shooting that occurred in Las Vegas late Sunday night on October 1, 2017, we are a nation in mourning. Overwhelmed by sadness, why’s, knee-jerk responses, passionate social...
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The LAUSD Teacher Strike, Part II: Gratitude is the Greatest Gift!
Outside Virgil Middle School picketing when a few of my former students came out to show their support PART II: During the rain, parents, members of the community, and former students came to Virgil...
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To Live, Luv, + Leave El Lay
The last 15 years of my life have been the absolute best, most challenging, formative years of my life. Immediately after my undergraduate studies, I ran off to Los Angeles after my college boyfriend...
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PART II: Feelings, Truth, and More Truths about Life
As a heads up: If you haven’t checked out PART I: Feelings, Truth, and More Truths about Life that was published on May 23rd, 2019, before you continue reading this, be sure to check out that post for...
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Draw Me a Map
When I was in college, my then boyfriend introduced me to country music. Now, being from Long Island listening to country music was blasphemy, but this was during the early 2000’s and country music...
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2019, A Year in Review
If you told me at the start of 2019 what the year held in store for me, I would not have believed you. At this point, I think it’s safe to say that things have reached a point where I can only laugh,...
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