Yes, it’s the end of January, but my life seems to be driven more by the academic calendar than the calendar year, so it seems like this resolutions post comes just in time. In writing this post (and making sure that I hadn’t already written a New Year’s Resolution post because it’s 3 weeks into […]
Month: January 2018
A Life in Overdrive
It’s Sunday afternoon. I’m home, with my family. My children are playing on their electronic devices. My husband is nap watching the little one on the couch while the big one occasionally calls out, “Huh?!” when he thinks someone is talking to him. I am watching the little one too, and blogging, and sending e-mails, […]
Grace & Responsibility
As 2018 begins, I’ve been thinking more about responsibility rather than resolutions. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is always an important beginning of the year reminder about my responsibility to keep pushing forward towards justice. Mid-January is also an important time for me personally as it is a reminder of a time when I was […]
Confession of a Literacy Professor
What is the last thing that you read that really stuck with you and why? It’s with this question that I begin my secondary literacy class. I also begin by posting my own response to this question. I want to use this discussion board to get a sense of who my students are, what they […]
Learning to Choose
I am learning to listen to my own voice. In the past, I was not strong enough to set limits on my time, energy, value. I would give and give and give until there was only enough to survive. Then I would get really sick or collapse from exhaustion in order to give myself an […]
On How to Be When There is Something to Do
Part of my hope for 2018 is that it will be a year with more space. I appreciate having fewer plans and more empty space because it allows for more time for creativity, and more opportunities for restoration and reflection. However, often empty space on my calendar leads to hours of lost time on social […]
A Day of One’s Own
Today, for the first time in a very long time, I had a day where I didn’t have any meetings, my children were at daycare and my husband was at work. Today, I spent, for the most part, alone and in silence. It was a great day. I drank tea, read from my Bible and […]