I opened up my email to find a well-deserved and spot-on criticism from someone, and my first response was to stop breathing. I don’t know what was worse –that she spoke my weakness out loud or that it was true. And then I had this silly hope jump up inside of me. I have tomorrow!…
It’s Monday morning, and today the bell will ring at 12:12. I will open the door of my Spanish room to a Baskin Robbins of people. Shy, outgoing, hardworking, not-so-hardworking, cheerful, intelligent, artistic, athletic, whitty. They’ll be hungry, because they’re teenagers, and they’ll want to talk to each other much more than they’ll want to…
I’m tired of working –and you? Somehow this woman helped me go on vacation for just a few minutes. I’m going to close the computer and put away the Spanish books for the day. No planning. No studying. While the house is dark and quiet I’m going to go eat a waffle and have a…
I’m driving my daughter’s car, a 1994 Honda with tires more valuable than the body. My son is driving my nice car that is only five years old, because the speedometer works in it. So I’ve been driving for a few months, in the car in which I have to guess my speed. Dangerous, because…
I make sure anytime something difficult comes my way I always worry about it first. How will I fix this? How will I get through this? How will I survive this? I, I, I. After a good stomach-churning moment or hour or few days, I remember I have help. Then I make sure to have…
I’m torturing my Spanish students by making them conjugate 50 verbs. Five verbs, four tenses each, every day for two weeks. Write, write, write, write. Turn the page. Write, write, write, write. Turn the page. I threw out a big word to them called automaticity. This is when we are able to process information involuntarily and without…
I’m awake at 12:57 a.m. thinking about a few people, and the result is eyebrows furrowed and gut in knots a bit. Relationships will do that to you. Sometimes the anxiety of caring about people is like wet socks on a cold day, and you wish you could simply yank them off and find relief….
I don’t know what kind of person you are at the pool, but I’m one to sit on the edge of the shallow end and put just the tip of my toe into the water. Then five minutes later the whole toe. And by the time everyone else is toweling off I’m just about ready…
This link is for my little girl, but y’all should watch it, too. Honey, you are about the most generous spirit I’ve ever met, and I have no doubt God has and is going to use you to change people’s lives. Big bills. Little bills. Operation Christmas Child boxes. Subway card handed out the car window to…
I cannot believe God describes his relationship with us as bridegroom to bride. As you watch this video, consider the effort God put into his proposal to us. “The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying, ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.’” (Jeremiah 31:3 NIV)
I was sitting in a long lecture hall in college the first time I heard the word “objective”. In education lingo, that means thinking way ahead to the target of what you want your student to know by the time you’re done teaching the lesson, and it has to be demonstrable. The objective is written…
Last night I needed to write a blog post to you, but instead I sat and snuggled on the couch with my man, and we watched a few inspiring YouTube videos. To his credit (and it’s his birthday today, by the way), he endured not one but two wedding proposal videos, with my head tucked into his shoulder,…
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