The Help

At the recommendation of a friend, I decided to buy the book, The Help, by Kathryn Stockett.  I actually downloaded it as an audiobook to my iPod.  I've never bought an audiobook before, but I commute 30 minutes to work everyday and I don't have much other free time between work and grad school.  I highly recommend this book!  It is wonderful.  It's set in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s and centers around a young white woman and two black maids.  It talks about the love between children and the black maids that raise them, prejudice, and civil rights.  The young white woman is ostracized for sympathizing with and befriending the two black maids.  It's being made into a movie as well and is just a great book.  If you get a chance, pick up The Help!

 

The Beginning

For those of you wondering what is in store on this fairly ordinary blog, it will be pretty varied. I've been toying with the idea of posting the debacles that are my life, my general feelings at times, restaurant reviews, book reviews, and anything else that I might want to share.

I'll start with me though. I am a 30 year old woman who still feels like a 17 year old girl at times.  In the past three years my life has taken some very dramatic turns. Most of the time I can find humor in it all. My friends and family certainly have! 

I'm wrapping up my sixth year of teaching middle school with plans of starting my master's to become a school counselor. It is impossible to be happy teaching middle school students unless you can laugh at yourself because believe me, they are laughing at you! Those kids have the ability to humble me like no other, but they also make me feel so incredibly loved. I go to work each day with a purpose.

I'm also SINGLE. That is capitalized because it seems to be a huge theme swirling around my current situation in life. I was married for a long time and then suddenly I wasn't. All those plans little girls make about a home, family, etc., yeah, I threw those right out the window. I moved back to my small home town and next door to my parents. Most of the time I wonder what the hell am I thinking, but the rest doesn't work with out LOVE. I never saw myself starting fresh at 30, but here I am. Oddly enough, I'm HAPPY with my life. Just missing a few things to be complete. I'm on that ever so popular quest to find the love of my life. I'm looking for the right man and hoping for those babies someday, but in the mean time, I am LIVING and enjoying the adventures my new life is presenting.