Thoughts On a Monday

Are you ready for a brief stream of consciousness on a Monday in between conferences? Are you sure? Ooookay. Here we go! Today and the next two days are for Parent/Teacher Conferences. I didn't prepare at all, but I'm not worried. It's reassuring knowing that I do my job well enough that I could have…

Taken For Granted

This month being November, and home to US Thanksgiving, I've been trying to put more thought to the things I'm grateful for. There are, of course, more than I can count. How do you encapsulate so many good things, especially the ones you take for granted and rarely remember to truly appreciate? In college I'd…

Movies

It seems to me that I am always having conversations with my friends in which I say something to the effect of "oh yeah, that's in my top ten movies for sure, no question!" But I stopped to think about it today, and I realised I really don't know if there are only ten movies in my…

Dog Names…

My father says that if you want a really good name for a dog, you should find something with as few syllables as possible, to make repeated calling of the name less tedious, and that it should be composed of the sort of sounds which carry farthest and loudest when screamed. My father wants to have a…

#thanks

Perhaps it's an overdone sort of Thanksgiving time blog post, but I think that especially today when we're surrounded by crimes, violence, injustice (can you say 'Ferguson'??) more than we're usually aware of, it seems the most appropriate time to bring as much attention to the positives as is possible. Back in college, so very…

25 things to do before I’m 25

When I was 22 I made a list of 25 things I want to do before I'm 25. That was eight months ago, although it feels like a lifetime. Here's the list, with All New explanations of why I want to do these things, as well as the ones I've already crossed off in the…