( Learning to live without Facebook, and other minor victories )

( The Crucible's Fire Opera, 'The Machine' )

( Blues Dancing in the Neighborhood )

( Learning to love lemon bars, hate spaetzle, and do some mock lead climbing )

I'm getting really excited about this whole one new thing a week plan, although I'm a little concerned that it's going to be a bit of a financial drain :/ That having been said, many things in my life are a financial drain, and many of them aren't this cool, so I'm OK with it ( Read more... )

I don't usually make New Year's resolutions because I usually don't have anything in particular that I feel the need to promise myself that I'll do differently in the upcoming year, but this year I have two ( Read more... )

Taken verbatim from an email I received from MoveOn.org ( Read more... )

Happy Fred Korematsu Day! I'm planning on doing some lesson planning around this for this week (because my class has so much spare time this week, har har) and I'm really excited about it ( Read more... )

I have been wondering for a long time why liberal TV personalities (Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in particular) seem to be so utterly silent regarding education policy. I'm wondering if it's related to this ( Read more... )

Sometimes it's easy to forget the ways that life is getting better, every day. It's subtle, so we miss it. We focus on what there still is left to change ( Read more... )