I've never really been on a business trip, unless you count flying home to Chicago from Albuquerque to do fundraising for my school at my home church. Well, the school paid for part of the flight. Perhaps it was partly a business trip.

Anyhow, I imagine one who travels on business feels a lot the way I do currently in life, on those days of travel. ( Read more... )

The afternoon, right after lunch. They are bouncing off the walls with sugar and hormones and who knows what else - teaching them Social Studies seems futile ( Read more... )

Madison, Wisconsin
Brenda Fujikawa
The Fair Oaks Cafe
Blue Rain Boots
Coffee with Grandma
News with Grandpa
Mad City Church
TNT
Bradbury's
Community Pharamacy
Great Dane
Parting Tears
Coffee Stout
Ernie Thieding
Tina and Wendy
Super Kep
3rd graders
Emerson Elementary
Bad Bed Backache
Jacob + Piper Wed
Ice Storm
ELM
Casa Shalom
Morgan
Job Applications
Ireton
Albuquerque, New ( Read more... )

So in procrastination of grading those final exams, I finished all my Christmas gifts for my family (I decided I would only give cards to friends--and Neal now gets to count as family, cool huh?). I was very proud that the only brand new items I used were a few photo prints, some glue and some tape. The rest of the gifts and their packaging were ( Read more... )

Before me sit my sixth graders ( Read more... )

Today my 8th grade Language Arts class studied this poem. I liked this one and chose it to study because it reminded me a bit of Iowa where I just was and it also reminded me of Albuquerque where winter doesn't necessarily mean snow ( Read more... )

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I'm sorry I have not given many updates recently. Especially because I think, save for maybe two, all you readers of this blog are a long distances away and I have only spoken on the phone with a very few of you. Lately, when I have felt like updating, I have then thought better of sharing the whine-y things I was thinking of sharing ( Read more... )

I am finally done with my first round of report cards--glory hallelujah! (if a week past the due date--civil disobedience to prove the point that I am being overworked.)

My neighborhood is kinda scary at night. I have heard gun shots two Friday nights in a row now. At least this week I didn't here the fighting, yelling and pleading and screaming, ( Read more... )

I have been wondering... is health a universal value or a cultural value?

I have been learning to realize that some things I used to think are universal values are in fact just values of my WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) middle class culture.  I had just never experienced anything different in my somewhat sheltered life until now. Moving away ( Read more... )