Tonight when I got home from work, I pulled into my driveway and was sitting in my car trying to summon the energy to get up and walk into the house, when a dog walked through my front yard. Not my dog, just a random dog I didn’t know. So I got out of theContinue reading “The First Week of School, In Review *”
Author Archives: Carie Juettner
Forgetting the Pledge of Allegiance and Other Symptoms of Adult Summer Slide
A couple of weeks ago, I was at my parents’ house when my mom mentioned that she “pledged the table.” She meant that she used Pledge cleaner on the kitchen table, but I (being the hilarious and punny daughter that I am) wanted to make the obvious joke that she pledged allegiance to her table.Continue reading “Forgetting the Pledge of Allegiance and Other Symptoms of Adult Summer Slide”
How to Write a Journal Entry When You Have “Nothing” to Write About
A couple of years ago, I shared my 10 Tips for Keeping a Journal, and today I want to elaborate on Tip #3: Think Small. As I said in my previous post, “If you wait until you have ‘good stuff’ to write about, your journal may stay closed for months. The truth is, there’s goodContinue reading “How to Write a Journal Entry When You Have “Nothing” to Write About”
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