How are we in May already? I feel like this April was simultaneously the slowest and fastest month of my life. Work was crazy busy. I had the privilege of serving on an off-site reaccreditation committee for three community colleges and it was quite the learning experience. TLDR, the committee reads over documents to ensure that the college is meeting its responsibilities to its students by meeting educational standards, providing the services advertised, and ensuring that facilities are safe and appropriate for the course offerings. I’m responsible for the library section. This was my first time serving on an off-site committee, which means that my committee read over the documents…

As always, I’m late with my submission. However, this time, I have a legitimate excuse reason. Actually, I have two. On 10 March, I celebrated my 53rd birthday and on 11 March, The Hubs and I celebrated our anniversary… To say it has been two days of surprising, yet, beautiful days of celebration would be putting it mildly. First, our son drove down for a visit — we went to lunch, toured the local museum, and just hung out. And, y’all, hanging with your adult children is something incredibly special. Like, you know you raised this person, so there’s part of you that knows him or her, but then they…

I started this post about 8 times with the standard “Happy New Year!” but I just couldn’t bring myself to hit “publish” because what I really want to say is “WTA____?” We’re only eight days in and we’re already on the precipice of a global conflict, people are losing healthcare, women are still not being believed, etc. This is just too much. And, before you say, “I didn’t come here to read about politics” or “I don’t do politics”, I want to warn you that EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL. Reading is political, or people wouldn’t be trying to ban books. Watching television is political, or you wouldn’t have people trying to…

Y’all, we’ve made it. This is the final Where Bloggers Live post of 2025. This has been such an incredible year for me, professionally. It started with my chancellor and vice chancellor inviting me to represent our college at Leadership Cenla. Leadership Cenla is a year-long program hosted by one of our local colleges with the goal of creating community leaders and ambassadors. Each month had a theme with a lecture, a field trip, and a project attached to it. Yeah, I’m a terrible blogger because I didn’t blog this at all. And I hate that because I know I’m going to lose the visual memories, even though the emotional…