Whenever I thought about being a teacher when I was younger, I imagined myself after 10, 15, 20 years of teaching–you know, the teacher who knows it all and has a reputation for being brilliant and demanding and personable, all at once. Basically, I thought of the teachers who had made the most difference in …
*Okay, so I know that a Tuesday Tell-All on a Wednesday is not exactly accurate (unless, of course, all my telling was about Tuesday). But yesterday was a little on the rough side, okay? I had to have a come-to-Jesus talk with my Creative Writing class (after which no one dared to move, much less …
Wanna know the funnest part about having a birthday five days apart from your spouse? Starting the birthday celebrating early and ending it late. By this I mean that we can stretch out all the parties and presents and it’s-my-birthday-bring-me-chocolate excuses to last ourselves almost two weeks. It’s basically awesome. This year, we kicked off …
Thank goodness the weekend is finally here, even if it does just mean that I have this mess to look forward to cleaning up: Bring it on, kitchen. Happy weekend, friends!
Welcome to Marble Park in Tremonton, Utah–the least kid-safe park in the entire world. But with that said, it might just be the coolest park I’ve ever been to. See that horse sculpture on the left? Looks lovely and relatively harmless, right? Well, as you can probably already tell from the photo on the right, …
*I read the FUNNIEST story by a student today in my creative writing class–I literally cried when I was re-relating it to Matt tonight when I came home. She was recounting her earliest childhood memory, which involved her wanting to play with her brother’s Lincoln Logs. Her brother told her she couldn’t play with them, …
My recipe for feeling better quick: Fresh (homemade!) Italian bread right out of the oven, My first-ever experimental stew (that tasted a lot better than it looks–swear!), And, of course, a DP. You know, I firmly believe that if you listen closely enough, your body will tell you …
My immune system could only hold up against the onslaught of pathogens brought in by 150 middle-schoolers for so long. I am sick. I think it’s something like a cross between extreme hayfever and a touch of the flu, but I don’t really know for sure. What I do know is that teaching today while …
