Today was our final staff day with brunch, milestone awards, saying so-long to teachers retiring or moving (once an Eagle, always an Eagle!) grades due, and general classroom shut down. My dear friend Rebecca [...]
When my older brother Tim died on Ascension Day 2010, the numbness of loss eventually gave way to deep turmoil and pain; I knew my choice was to become “A Quartz contentment, like a [...]
A fire drill is a great opportunity to connect with students outside in the fresh Colorado sunshine, so why not talk about writing and publishing? One of my ninth grade students recently immigrated from [...]
My lilac bush had a brief but glorious two week bloom this year, with the freeze and snow on Friday finally scattering the petals. In our seven years in this home so far, sometimes [...]
Norman Rockwell, "Breaking Home Ties", The Saturday Evening Post, September 25, 1954. I can understand his feeling of letting go of the season of childhood and teen years, in order to let young adults [...]
A Mother’s Love. I’ve been so sick with influenza this week and even left work on Monday at lunch so ill, I had to find afternoon sub coverage. It’s been miserable and I’ve been [...]
What a magical weekend in the snowy mountains! I was invited to help be a chaperone for our women’s varsity soccer team for the weekend and we stayed in a gorgeous spot at Rocky [...]
At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise when we remember our yesterdays. Our yesterdays hold broken [...]
I wish you joy this season! Joy when you feel overlooked and lonely, and joy in the peace and holy stillness. Joy when a loved one who is deployed returns home, and joy when [...]
Ranger and I noticed how the golden aspens were glowing in the late afternoon light and he recently sat so sweetly for a photograph (but in reality he was staring at small pieces of [...]
