Okay, you’re going to say I’m weird, but this is just how I think y’all… It’s really cool to plan your dad’s funeral and your daughter’s wedding in the same year. Now don’t be depressed with that thought, because I’m not. Stay with me. Since mid December when that girl of mine started flashing a…
Number one is when that boy of mine stumbles down the stairs in the morning, to eat a bowl of cereal in his sleep –my first encounter with another human being for this day. I say, Good Morning, nice and easy, because I always remember Solomon’s advice, “He who blesses his friend with a loud…
My children grew up with beautiful Eric Carle books in hand. I read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? to my daughter 387,000 times. Then there was The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Very Busy Spider. My kids grew up, but I did not. Thus, my childish enthusiasm when I pulled La Mariquita…
There are a variety of reactions students give when they see their grades on a test. They slump or cringe or smile or do a little dance. I go through most of those emotions after being around people. Maybe it’s the teacher in me, but when I come home, after being in a social setting,…
In an hour I leave for a school Christmas program, and I know at least two of my Spanish students have solos. I can hardly wait to hear them sing. Because life is more than Spanish, and I need to always remember my 45 minutes with nouns and verbs and conjugations is only a little…
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 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….
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…
My grandma wrote newsy letters to the family on a regular basis, typed all the way out to the edges of the paper. She wrote about what the birds were doing in the front tree and about how well her garage sale went. She wrote about what was available at the food store and about…
I recently tried to pray for someone and experienced an unusual feeling of hopelessness, which made me panic. I had this feeling like even if I prayed nothing would change. This was a strange faithlessness for me. My prayers continued but always with an undercurrent of, Lord, will my prayer to you really change anything…
We were getting into the swing of things during my Wednesday night Bible study, when the unplanned and unexpected happen. My friend had just finished sharing her story with us, when a woman sitting across the room said, Do you know what I love about you? Right there, in the middle of our Bible study,…
It was a headline moment. I actually had people over for a homemade dinner, with the table dusted (yes, I mean that) and set all pretty. I made chicken tetrazzini, with homemade white sauce and sautéed mushrooms, which is a lot fancier than Little Caesar’s. The meal tasted good, everything went well, and the company…
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