Belisle Love

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  • Time to Think

    It is funny. We have a lifetime to think, but some days lend themselves more favorably to have clear thought. I saw a meme about educators in summer. It begins with the excitement of having days without school obilgations. Notice that I did not use the words “summer off.” Educators have the mandatory vacation days…

  • Bigger Picture

    It has been just about a year to the date since I last wrote a blog post. I do not know what stopped me from writing. Maybe it was the craziness of balancing grad school with my son’s college graduation and my other son moving across the country. Who knows? A lot has transpired over…

  • In Between

    Have you ever felt that you are living in between two different identities? Stay with me here…..I promise, I’m not talking multiple personalities. Although, some might say I exhibit just that at times. I am saying, we all have moments of identity reinvention. For some, it comes naturally because we become married or divorced, changing…

  • It’s Official. I’m Me.

    Today, I finally took the step to restore my name to my birth name. Following divorce, it was difficult to make the change due to a multitude of reasons. Covid, trips planned and wondering if it was the right thing to have a different name from my kids all delayed today’s victory. Today, I reclaimed…

  • The Struggle is Real

    The struggle is real. Do you ever feel like you’re living in an alternate universe? I sometimes feel like I hear words come out of my mouth and I just don’t believe they are me actually speaking them. Yet, I cannot stop myself. Is it possible that one can be so exhausted from being overextended…

  • Hunger Games

    I had a hard time coming up with what to title this post. It is surely not because I have run out of things to talk about. The last month has been a whirlwind of emotions, trials, and joys. Honestly, I am in a space where a lot of things annoy me. It is funny…

  • Tempering Expectations

    Life has a funny way of teaching us to set expectations but then in a cruel twist will turnaround and tell you that your expectations are too high…..or worse, they are too low. You are not meeting someone else’s expectations. Or, you are not meeting your own. Why do we even bother in this winless…

  • New Beginnings: It’s Me, I’m the Problem

    As the great Taylor Swift said: It’s me, I’m the problem, it’s me. I must give credit to Miss Swift, but beyond those words I don’t know the rest of that song. Yet, those words are something I feel so deeply! 2024. It’s a new year. Will it be a new me? I hope not…….and…

  • Another year down

    I say this all the time these days…..it’s been so long since I last posted. I have thoughts in my mind but can’t seem to make the time to put them together. I’m halfway through my three year graduate school program and it has been nothing short of exhausting. I’ve watched my health take a…

  • Exhaustion

    Exhaustion is real. It is within all of us at times. How do we get ourselves out of it? You’ve got me. I haven’t a clue. I do know that there are times when I simply wish to throw my hands in the air and say to hell with it. Let the chips fall where…