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About La Cracha Handy

My name is La Cracha Handy. I started blogging 7 years ago. I am currently building my brand as an independent author-publisher of nonfiction books on relationships and parenting. My first book, Leaving the Hidden Path: Motivational Guidance for Women with Young Children Considering Divorce, will be released in the spring of 2022. I am also a pop culture geek. I read and collect comic books, play Pokemon Go, and build model rockets. I love Star Trek: The Next Generation and Doctor Who. My name is prounced "Lacrisha."

Class Reunions: Should You Attend?

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I was recently informed, by a childhood friend, that my name was submitted to serve on our high school class reunion planning committee.  Actually, she is the one who signed me up.  I told her that I wasn’t going to participate because I don’t plan on attending our next reunion, just like I didn’t attend the first two.  Well, I couldn’t attend the first one because I was in Jamaica getting married.  But I wouldn’t have gone to the reunion anyway.

So the question is, should you attend your high school class reunion?

The answer should be that it depends on the individual.  But a lot of people don’t look at it that way.  They feel EVERYONE should attend class reunions because it’s going to be fun, and you get to see your old classmates.  But I look at it like this.  I HAD to go to school, I DON’T HAVE TO attend class reunions.

I don’t do class reunions.

Of course those that are excited to the point of hyperventilating about their high school class reunions were the popular kids.  Jocks, cheerleaders, and class clowns.  Loud mouth, gum-popping girls.  Cliques.  Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about.

I wasn’t popular, but I wasn’t an unknown either.  I lived on the honor roll, was active in sports, band, and even had a column in the school newspaper.  I didn’t belong to a clique, I was quiet and shy, and preferred to keep to myself. And I didn’t like half, if not more, of the kids anyway.

Most of the people I hung around back then don’t attend our class reunions either.  That’s because we don’t care:

  • who is fat now
  • who is still skinny
  • who can still dance
  • who still can’t dance
  • who is still pretty
  • who looks ugly now
  • who is still hoeing around
  • who has a boatload of kids by different daddies
  • who don’t know who their baby daddy is
  • which guys don’t take care of their children

I don’t pass judgment on anyone, so I don’t care to be around such nonsense at my age.  Again, I had to go to school, I don’t have to attend a high school class reunion.

Besides, I already keep in touch with a select few, so I don’t need to attend a reunion.  I can talk to my friends anytime I like.

Around the time of my last class reunion, I got into a heated discussion with a childhood friend.  She told me that I am supposed to go to the reunion.  We attended the same elementary school, but different middle and high schools.  She was always the pretty and popular girl who could dance.  Boys loved her, girls hated her.  She couldn’t understand my point of view at all.  She was very sarcastic.  But what she don’t realize is that, unless you walk in that person’s shoes, you won’t understand jack shit.

So I ask the question again.  Should you attend your high school class reunion?

It is an INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE.

Have you attended a class reunion?  Why or why not?

UPDATE:  June 27, 2015
I wrote this blog post 1 year ago.  And my decision remains unchanged, I don’t do class reunions.  However, my 25 year high school class reunion is near.  Not only have I been asked if I’m attending, I’ve also been TOLD (by my closest classmates) that I am going.  After a lot of in-depth thinking, I am now considering making a cameo appearance at the meet and greet.  I may even slip in the cabaret.  But nothing more than that.

I’m sure you will want to know whether I go or not.  I’ll post my answer soon.

5 More Questions I May Never Find The Answers To

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  1. Why is marble cake always dry?
  2. Will a racehorse ever travel faster than gossip?
  3. I know that I before e, except after c.  So why do I always spell niece and receive wrong?  (thank you spellcheck)
  4. Men have two heads.  Why do they use one more than the other?
  5. Where is Waldo?

You may know of me, you may have even heard about me, but you will never know me.  –
La Cracha

Parenting Tip #1: Hand Washing

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Hand washing is the best way to prevent germs from spreading and avoid getting sick.  Kids may listen when parents tell them to wash their hands, but it’s our job to make sure they follow through with it.  We can’t follow our kids everywhere they go, but we can make sure they ALWAYS wash their hands while at home, in hopes they do the same when they are out in the public.

I went into a restroom at a fast-food restaurant a few days ago.  Both stalls were taken, until a little girl walked out of one of them.  I went into the stall, and the child started talking to another young girl in the other stall.  Within a couple of minutes, both of the girls walked out of the bathroom without washing their hands.  Maybe I overreacted.  The soap and water worked for me, but maybe it was just a coincidence.  Maybe it wasn’t working at the time for the girls.  Yeah right.

Parents, please stress the importance of hand washing to your children.  Soap and water.  Hand sanitizer if, if necessary.

Training kids to wash their hands from an early age will hopefully stick with them into adulthood.  That way, they won’t become like the lady I saw in a restroom at a courthouse a few months ago.  She used the bathroom, but ran her fingers (not the entire hands) under the water for no more than two seconds.  I used a public restroom at my job recently.  On two separate occasions, a woman walked out of the stall, and right on out of the bathroom without stopping at the sink.  UGH.  GROSS.  NASTY.

What Is This Blog About?

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My new blog is pretty much about whatever it is I want to say.  It could be random, or a well-thought-out post.

This blog is not an online journal.  I keep my personal life to myself, so don’t expect an autobiography.  I may occasionally throw something personal in there, if it’s relevant to what I’m writing about.

My posts can be funny, motivational, or they can be anxiety-induced.  When my anxiety is running high, then watch out.  Anything goes.

I am a wife, parent, full-time employee, college graduate, and lots of other stuff.  So I will be writing about a variety of topics.

Feel free to leave comments or send me an email at any time.

 

15 Questions I May Never Find The Answers To

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  1. How many licks will it take for me to get to the center of a tootsie pop?  I have tried a countless number of times over the years since childhood.
  2. Why am I always given a stack of napkins for a regular hamburger at McDonald’s, but zero napkins for a sloppy Big Mac?
  3. Why haven’t my jaw ever been broken by a jawbreaker?
  4. Why are selfies suddenly popular?  We were taking pictures of ourselves years ago, back in the disposable camera days.
  5. Why don’t I get strong like Popeye when I eat spinach?
  6. How much wood could a woodchuck chop, if a woodchuck could chop wood?
  7. It is easy to fall in love.  Why is it hard to fall out of?
  8. How is it that 5 billion people can tell me all about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, and Honey Boo Boo, but only 5 can tell me about Malaysia Flight 370, the 200+ kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, and last years United States federal government shutdown?
  9. Why do high school athletes get full-ride college scholarships, but high academic achievers hold bake sales and spaghetti dinner fundraisers to pay for at least one semester?
  10. Why do blacks become furious when called ‘nigger’ by whites, but happily call each other ‘nigga?’ (not all of us say ‘nigga’)
  11.  If white racists hate blacks so much, then why do they spend hours baking in the sun until they are dark?
  12. Why does Michigan have cold winters when it’s shaped like a mitten?  Will we ever be able to borrow Louisiana’s boot?
  13. Why does a know-it-all know-it all?
  14. Why haven’t Calgon taken me away?
  15. Who shot J.R.?