My Own Backyard

"If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with."~Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz, 1939

Monday, February 12, 2018

A Letter to My Younger Self

Dear 1991 Casey, I'm writing to you specifically as opposed to, say, 1985 Casey, or Y2K Casey, because you sit at the brink of adulth...

Sunday, February 4, 2018

An Egg Metaphor (No. Not That One)

First--for those of you wondering how my 18 for 2018 is going--Well. Blogging weekly is the first item on the list. And yet. I ha...

Sunday, January 7, 2018

Every Week in 2018. Take One: Reading Lamp

I set a 2018 goal to blog weekly. It's January 7 and I haven't written anything yet. So today's the day. Whether I like it or...

Sunday, December 31, 2017

My Eighteen for Two Thousand-Eighteen

Over the past year or so I've started to dive into the world of podcasts. I'm a bit obsessed with them. And while I am a morning...

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

I'm Having a Moment

Perhaps it's stress. I'm going back to a brick and mortar classroom full-time for the first time in twenty years. Perhaps it'...

Monday, August 8, 2016

Dear Nelson...

This was written for senior Barak night back in June. But on this, your nineteenth birthday, just a few short weeks away from your departu...

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

I Believe the Time Has Come

to blog again. You are likely asking, "Why now?" (Or better yet, you're saying, "She's got a blog?" I had n...

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About Me

Casey: I'm a small-town Kansas transplant, plopped down in a suburb of the second largest city in the United States. My super power is making a short story long. Sarcasm is my native language, but I can converse in English as well when necessary. I'm a veteran home school mom and an elementary teacher by trade. For six years I got to combine the best of both of those worlds by working for a virtual school. Now I'm back in a brick and mortar building and loving every exhausting and exhilarating minute of it. Better Half and I are parents to four amazing humans. One lives in the house with us, two do the college thing, and one its a bona-fide adult who pays her own bills and has a 401K and stuff. My favorite things in the world are a good book, a fabulous thrift store find, a solitary four-mile run, and the look in a child's eye when he realizes that c-a-t reads 'cat.' Everyone likes me better when I consume coffee first thing in the morning. I fiercely love my faith, my family, my friends, and the Oxford comma.

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