I’m a teacher.

I don’t mean ‘I have a job teaching’ (although I do.) I mean, I am a teacher at heart. And I really wanted to share what needed to be taught most.

What I see is a gap…The problem with being a classroom teacher is – you teach your wonderful students one subject for a year, then they move on. But there’s no, “what does the real world look like?’ class.

So many of my students march off into the world knowing subjects, but not life. They have social media – but we all know that isn’t real life. It’s not going to help them see how to build their own lives.

At first, I thought this was going to be more of a ‘how to adult’ site. But teaching that requires more interaction with my students than a blog would provide. So I decided I would start here with a snapshot of my life. An ‘adult’ life. The things I think of day to day, the things I manage day to day. And, more importantly, why.

How and Why I choose to eat/cook/feed my family the way I do.

How and Why I manage my money.

How and Why I drive a 13 year old car.

How and Why I choose how I take care of my health.

How and Why I … whatever else I think of.

Because seeing it in action, and choosing to take what resonates with you and leave what doesn’t, that is how a person figures out their life. I’m a real person with a real life. It isn’t always pretty, it isn’t the most glamorous, exciting, or fast-paced. But it’s real. It’s authentically mine. And my life makes me happy.

If I help even one person get to an ‘adult’ life that makes them happier, this blog is totally worth it.