Category Archives: Education

Thoughts on teaching, teachers, learning, and homework.

Needed resources

Categories: Education, Health

It then said to start with you need to list all of the resources you need to write your dissertation, giving examples of resources beyond just money. And that seemed like a good idea. So here’s the list I’ve come up with. Keep reading

A long winter’s nap

Categories: Education, Work

It’s been a long semester. More than once I’ve slipped and called my backpack a suitcase. Which to me means that it and I have spent far too much time gone this semester. It’s starting to get to me and wearing on me. Time for it to be over. Keep reading

I remember at 29

Categories: Education, Family, Life, Relationships, Remembers, Work

I remember at 29 wondering if quitting one thing would mean I’d always quit when things weren’t so much fun any more. … I worried that quitting a job when I didn’t like it any more meant I’d quit other things, like perhaps a marriage (hey! nobody ever said my fears were rational!), when they stopped being enjoyable as well. Keep reading

I remember at 28

Categories: Education, Happy Things, Remembers, Work

I remember at 28 … The teachers stood to clap for me and I felt so small because so many of them are amazing teachers that I look up to and so many of them deserve to be honored too. Keep reading

I remember at 27

Categories: Education, Family, Happy Things, Relationships, Remembers

I remember at 27 starting graduate school and meeting Brett. Both of which still affect me today (one in more enjoyable ways than the other). Keep reading

I remember at 23

Categories: Education, Family, Life, Remembers

I remember at 23 having a few weeks where I was basically homeless. The contract for my apartment that summer ran out before I had to be in Mexico to student teach. Keep reading

I remember at 22

Categories: Education, Gospel, Remembers

I remember at 22 worrying if I remembered enough English to do a phone interview for student teaching. I wanted to do my student teaching in Colonia Juarez…. They wanted to do an interview with me, and it needed to happen before I came home from Brasil. Keep reading