Finding time for myself, and also myself

Summer has come and while it can't be everything I had dreamed of, it's going well overall. I have such a history of imag…

My Personal Performance Goals

I had some interest on Twitter (where I am so much more active!) about the performance goals I had to write for work. Essentiall…

Summertime and the living is ... different

Ahhh... sweet summertime. As a school-based OT, it's a good time. Not easy, per se, but still good.   I very much enjoy my jo…

Keeping Organized

I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to a couple of OT Month pieces. One was on Abby's awesome pediatric OT blog a…

Don't be like me

I get requests for advice from students or new practitioners every now and then via email. One thing I would like to say is "…

Maternity plan

People have been asking me about what my work plan will be after the baby since before we knew there was be a baby (part of anoth…

Photo Phriday- Pre-Christmas Edition

A very thinly tied together theme post, but might be the last until after the holidays. In fact, I've actually had calls for …

Adventures in Scheduling

With all the crazy scheduling that is required as a therapist, you'd think they'd make you do logic puzzles as part of an…

Photo Phriday- My Office(s)

So right now my work life is mainly Early Intervention as an independent contractor and prn work at a local hospital/outpatient c…

What's up Wednesday?

Not a lot of time to write, but I want to get a couple of ideas down. I'm kinda ready to jump to January and start some New Y…

What a feeling...

It's been a long time since I've felt THIS good about a mid-week day off. (I hope I won't regret days like this if I…

Life moves pretty fast sometimes...

So as I was driving back from a job today and struck by an interesting reflection, that in an introspective way snowballed into a…

"My Life, My Time"

Very guilty admission: I watch a terrible reality show on the Lifetime network. Please don't think worse of me for this. But …

Carolina State of Mind

I can hear the waves rolling in, and it is just great. There's been a lot of flux recently. Wrapped on a great job, off only…

Good intentions

We know exactly where good intentions get a person! Here's a brief update of my life since conference So #AOTA12 goes down in…

Tangentially Job-Related Goals

Clearly, with my job in a new field and situation I've never been in before, I have goals. I want to be competent (and if pos…

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans

So, I work in the school system now. I know, it's a big change. But it's not like I had anything else going on, what wi…

thoughts on starting exercise

So I've gotten on the exercise train for a first time in a long time. And I have boarded a new train heading somewhere quite …

random thoughts of an insomniac OT

Can't sleep and it's before six a.m. on a day I have off. Awesome. But here are some of my thoughts on things that have b…

New roles & responsibilities

I have taken on some additional OT tasks this year, and it's getting to be an interesting balancing act. A flashback to begin…