Category: Random Life

  • The Ugly Part

    The Ugly Part

    This last week has been a blast. Mostly. The part that makes me say, “mostly” is the ugly side of my job.

  • Cross-eyed on the Interwebs

    Cross-eyed on the Interwebs

    I spend a lot of time reading all over the internet. Some days my browser has so many open tabs that those tabs have shrunk to barely discernible bumps surrounded by arrows on either side of the screen to tell me there are more tabs in hiding.

  • Life’s Golden Snitch

    Life’s Golden Snitch

    A sense of community can be as elusive as the Golden Snitch at a Quidditch match, but most of us are still compelled to seek it.

  • Meyers-Briggs and My Calendar

    Meyers-Briggs and My Calendar

    In case you’re new to reading here, there’s something you need to know about me. It’s all important, because it’s fairly defining.

  • When Monday is Friday

    When Monday is Friday

    When Monday is Friday the world goes a little wonky.

  • Flu Lessons

    Flu Lessons

    My absence here last week was largely due to my general absence from life last week. As I’ve begun to come out of the misery induced state the flu pushed me into, I may have learned a thing or two or seven.

  • Empty

    Empty

    In my department we often talk about our emotional tanks–what fills them and what drains them. We teach that we all need to fill our tanks faster than they drain.

  • Unwrapping Love

    Unwrapping Love

    My family is fairly fluent in all the different love languages, but–for the most part–we speak gifts.

  • Community in Real Life

    Community in Real Life

    In September of 2002 I lost a lot. I lost my home. I lost my classroom and my students. I lost my stuff. I lost my love of fireworks.

  • A Costly Week

    A Costly Week

    I’m energized. I’m wiped out. I desperately want to retreat and sleep. I can’t wait to be in the midst of everything.