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Read This, Skip That

April 22, 2010

Read This: Not to be all bad-blogger-y on you, but I really have been responding via email to comments. They’ve been incredible on the post about what parents want from schools and several teacher friends of mine have commented that they’re still lurking to read what parents are writing. Skip That: There is a parent [...]

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25 Things You Don’t Know About Me

April 2, 2010

(The rest of the post title is “Nor Do You Care” to be tongue in cheek, but that was too long. If you don’t care, don’t read. If you don’t care but want to tell me that you don’t care, don’t bother.) (Originally, I started writing about issues that parents of students have/want/need and then [...]

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This Door Not Open

March 24, 2010

A few summers ago I took my camera and headed on a little tour of places I like to visit and snapped a lot of photos. I don’t get to play around with photography as much as I want, but I have a little collection of favorites. The red door of the First Presbyterian Church [...]

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The Need to Inspire

November 11, 2009

Since many people have left cards and inspirational notes inside the purses they’ve donated to the Purse Drive (Hey, fellas? I know you come here and get tired of the girly talk, but just for one second remember that FOOTBALL LASTS FOR HOURS and it takes the average person 2.37 minutes to read this here [...]

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as fast as I can write

November 8, 2009

saying no to: sinking to a level beneath me taking all the blame piling on more responsibilities than I can handle being a scapegoat judging others, letting others judge me saying yes to: letting love in making new friends helping every person I can bright colors stopping to take a pretty picture trying new [...]

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The Week That Got Away

October 8, 2009

On Monday I fully intended on uploading and editing my pictures from the weekend. On Tuesday I was mad at myself for not making time to write and capture my feelings about retreat I attended with some fantastic women who are incredible writers and photographers and thinkers. But then, in the evening, I got to [...]

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(500) Days of Love & Haiku

August 26, 2009

It’s high time I took in a movie and “(500) Days of Summer” hit the nail on the head for me in many ways: I wanted something I could simultaneously laugh at and something that resemble real life love/romance/disappointment. So, because the movie quoted Arthur Miller’s assessment of getting over a woman (write about her) [...]

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Something Stupid, Something Won, Something Cool

March 22, 2009

It seems very strange for me to begin this post with, “Man! Y’all do some really stupid stuff!” but it’s true. I’m sorry. You do. But it’s ok! I do, too! All the time. I’m probably doing something stupid right now and won’t figure it out until next Thursday. This time, however, I asked you [...]

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Ira Glass Will Fit Neatly In My Purse

December 13, 2008

Mallory and I are attending tonight’s showing of Ira Glass and we’re beside ourselves. This is her Christmas present and the most unselfish thing I decided to do when I purchased the tickets a few weeks ago was invite myself along so that we could cherish Ira in all his chunky-glasses glory together. If you [...]

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August Resolutions

August 8, 2008

How do you like my posts with no direction? I don’t like them either. Next time I promise to write an outline with Roman Numerals, write a first draft, give it to a Writing Buddy, and then edit and make corrections. Just like I used to teach my students to do when I was still [...]

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