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So I’ve been a bit MIA the past couple days due to it being the end of the trimester and all. (Seriously, I was at my school until almost 10 o’clock on Thursday night finishing up all my grading. It was awful.) But I couldn’t resist posting about the books I’ve been reading because they …

While grading through some packets my students did while reading A Christmas Carol, I have been especially interested to read their responses to this question: “In Stave 2, Scrooge is given the opportunity to see all the events from his past that have affected his current feelings about the future. In thinking over your own …

Since we hadn’t been home to see our families since Christmas, we decided this weekend that we’d probably better suck it up and pay the extra gas costs and get ourselves to Bountiful already. We couldn’t have picked a better weekend to go. Besides being a 3-day weekend (which just automatically makes for a more convenient weekend to …

So . . . it’s come to my attention that seemingly overnight, I have acquired a lot of new readers. And since part of the reason why I got into the blogging world was because I liked getting to meet like-minded people, I decided that today, I want to meet you. But before I ask …

 Well folks, here we are–back at work and school on a Monday morning. I keep searching my brain, trying to figure out a way to NOT make that such a depressing fact every Monday. It’s a difficult task. But, like I was telling my students in my classes today–ANYTHING can be made better or more interesting if …

Since it was getting to be tedious work doing a book review for every single book I read (like I’ve done for the past two years), I’ve decided to just post once a month on all the books I finished for that month. And what do you know? This two-chapters-a-day goal thing apparently makes me …

To take advantage of the holiday (since we both have it off), we decided to take ourselves on a little excursion to Cutler Marsh, which I pass every day on my way to and from work. At first, I was disappointed–the entire lake was frozen over, and the landscape looked just like anywhere else, complete …

Happy New Year, everyone! Well, almost. With 2013 just hours away, my biggest New Year’s resolution ever is looming over my head: The goal to become organized. Last year, my goal was to run my first marathon. Even though that was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done up to this point, I’m pretty sure …