Becoming Broken and Whole

It is the greatest paradox of life that in order to become whole, one must be completely broken. I was going to wait until next month to write this entry. It is a reflection on the last year of my life. August 14th will be exactly a year that I have been searching for a job and filling my months with random short-term sources of income. Would I ever have imagined this year? Of course not. Would I ever have planned or hoped for twelve months of uncertainty....

Becoming a Volunteer Coordinator

You may or may not know that I recently interviewed for a teaching position at an early education center. Well, today I received a letter in the mail informing me that, while they appreciate my interest in the position, they have decided to hire a different candidate...Rejection notices are so personal. So, I will not be teaching and herding 10 toddlers around every day for the next year. I, still, don't know what I will be doing for the next year....