The Top 5 (Women’s) Magazines on Newsstands Today

It’s no secret that I’m totally obsessed with magazines and that I have been since I was literally 11. For several years, that meant an obsession with your basic fluff—magazines that only touted strategies for getting guys, looking hot, and staying in shape (with the occasional landscape gardening magazine thrown in to feed my brain …

Blogging

Taking Charge + A Blog Announcement

It’s been a hard last week or so—slowly but surely, I have been feeling the all-too-familiar crushing weight of my job combining with the all-too-familiar crushing squeeze of my other daily and weekly responsibilities. I knew, from years of  experience, that the only thing keeping me from a major meltdown was the fact that I was still managing …

Teaching

Life Lessons – Straight Out of the 7th Graders’ Mouths

Image via Despite the fact that I believe I’m getting better at teaching week by week, there are obviously still some gaps occurring between my direct instruction of the material and the students’ direct understanding and application of said material. I present to you, for your reading pleasure, some of the spicier bits that came out …

Funny

How I Would Have Lived My Life If I’d Only Listened to Disney

So I love Disney movies as much as the next person–(I mean, what kid didn’t grow up watching the classic Disney cartoons every other day?) And I think that in many ways, Disney movies generally taught decent principles when it came to things such as sacrifice, going for your dreams, and being brave. However, after …