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  We have been living in our current apartment for almost three years now (it will have been three years in about 3 weeks), and here is the sad truth: I’ve kind of hated our apartment almost since day one. At first, my twitterpated newlywed self could easily look past the many indiscretions and blemishes …

  You guys—I’m on spring break. I have actually been on spring break since Tuesday at exactly 3:06 PM. Sadly, you wouldn’t know it by looking at my daily activities though, which have been noteworthy only in the fact that I’ve gotten a little bit of extra sleep. Recently, I have come to accept the …

Life’s been pretty busy lately, but now that I’m going into the home stretch of the school year, I have had a *little* more time to read, and my latest crop of books has not disappointed. Just a reminder as to the significance of the ratings: 5 stars = life-changing (and I try not to …

I’ve been giving my students the Myers-Briggs personality test to kill some time during homeroom this week (where I have 8 minutes with those kids every day pretty much to do whatever the heck I want). They’ve been really eager to find out their personality type, and I was pretty curious myself to take the …

  The Lord be thanked for giddy love and springtime, for without either, the world would know no poetry.

You know sometimes, when you get onto Facebook after a long, hard day at work, and suddenly it seems like your wall (or whatever the heck it’s called) has exploded with announcements of marriages, pregnancies, new houses, babies, exotic vacations, and promotions? And then you think to yourself, ‘Why am I so BEHIND everybody?’ You …

Now that it seems that our plans to stay here in Logan for another year have basically solidified (or pretty well near so), I have been taking stock of what’s to come—the changes coming at work, the things that will remain the same, and the exciting curve balls that may lie ahead. But although I’m …

On Monday, my friend Liz told me about a great opportunity to “shadow” a professional photographer on a shoot (at which Liz was the model). Although much of the shoot was spent observing the photographer and helping her out with her light reflector, I still learned a ton (and had a few chances to get …