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 …
This year, I’m teaching my students out of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens. Basically, every Thursday (usually), my kids will read a small section out of the book and then talk about it as a class. Last week, we were reading the part about “life-centers,” which basically means the things or people that …
*Guys, it feels SOOOO good to be back blogging again. Even though I desperately needed the break, it was kind of a love/hate thing because almost all I could think about the whole time was how much I missed the therapy of getting all the details of my days out onscreen so they weren’t all rattling inside …
For a few weeks now, Matt and I haven’t been able to stand even the thought of looking into our vegetable garden. We were so blessed with an overabundance of every kind of produce and so bogged down with the task of how to possibly USE it all that we swore we could never look a tomato …
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 …
In high school, it seemed like I was almost always the one instigating all the parties—various collections of friends would text me every weekend to see what was going on, and somehow we’d all end up at my mom’s house, playing Risk or watching scary movies or just chatting on the couches in the living room. …
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 …
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 …
