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…
Honestly? I had myself a little weep in the car on the way home yesterday. This teaching thing is hard, probably because I bounce out of bed planning to be Ms. Perfect Teacher of the Universe and, well, you know. Actually, I was the Perfect Teacher for a few minutes yesterday. It’s like an eclipse…
Within a half an hour I heard it twice. First it was my man on the phone, calling me on his way home from work. How was your day? he said. Nothing spectacular. Well, it’s not always specatular, he said. Then it was my dearest friend and neighbor wondering if I had any Ro-Tel tomatoes,…
For 13 years now I have awakened around 3:00 in the morning with insomnia. Wide awake, I have to get up and move around for an hour or two before I can relax enough to go back to sleep. Lately I’ve had a new problem develop of not being able to go to sleep if…
I am a teacher. Doesn’t that sound great? Everyone knows what a teacher is, and everyone knows teachers are valuable and make a difference. “Teacher” is a good, solid title for what my purpose is. HOWEVER… God gives many people gifts to use in this world that have no title, aren’t easily defined, and do…
Last night I strolled my old college campus with Matt –my hand in his warm, strong one. It had been 13 years since I visited here, and I wasn’t prepared for how I would feel. We stopped at points along the way, remembering. Here is where I broke up with Matt for trying to hold…
We happily agreed to loan our ski pants to a friend -a quiet, reserved friend. He didn’t know the pants were neon green. I wish you could have seen his face when I pulled those out of the front closet. I later laughingly asked his wife what she thought of the pants, and she said,…
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