Keep Refining Your Techniques

I’ve just finished my last Chemistry exam for this semester.  I feel light as air!  It’s been a stressful couple of weeks as it came down to three major tests in a row.  Today, I got the most amazing gift, the most perfect thing to happen – it rained!  I love the rain, and IContinue reading “Keep Refining Your Techniques”

Change Your “Have To” to “Get To”

Hello, dear readers! I’ve been really chomping at the bit to get back to writing.  To find the time, I chose to cut out some extracurricular activities, and now I plan to check in on the regular. One thing I’ve been wanting to share with you is this idea of changing our “have to’s” toContinue reading “Change Your “Have To” to “Get To””

Fail Big

Well, it’s taken me over a week to write this.  Let me start by saying I’ve never failed a test – ever. So, when I got my first Trig test back last Wednesday, and I got an F….I went in to shock!  My first thought was, “This grade is out of 60, right?”  No –Continue reading “Fail Big”

Week 1

My first week of school is in the books!  Talk about having my brain stretched.  If sitting in class listening to lecture isn’t a total change of pace for me (it is), add to that learning a new campus, online school software, and parking lots, and my brain was kept seriously busy creating new synapses.Continue reading “Week 1”

My Big Leap

OK – here we go!  After much deliberation and researching to see how viable this plan was, the pieces are now in play. I’m starting out on a path towards becoming a medical doctor.  I need all the information in those books in the picture above to get in my head – stat! The realityContinue reading “My Big Leap”

An Old Guy on Grief

I came across this article a few days ago when someone posted it on Facebook. A woman had lost her friend, and she was reaching out online to ask how to deal with grief.  On reddit.com, she wrote, “My friend just died.  I don’t know what to do.”  While she received many answers and aContinue reading “An Old Guy on Grief”