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Day 2 – What it feels like for a girl who played with fire


Last night I made the huge mistake of starting to read "The Girl Who Played with Fire" at about midnight. I started, and I couldn't stop. Because it was too scary to stop reading and go back to my room... Continue Reading →

Day One


For New Years...well...I've turned into a bit of a grinch. This is a holiday that seems to always get so blown out of proportion...and always seems to let down in a way. One of those nights when the "getting ready"... Continue Reading →

M2M TwentyTen – the Sequel: Navidad Edition


People, a place, and a mission so amazing, we roll twice a year :) We had such an awesome time this last week we spend in Ensenada. It started out a little shaky....I was driving down with the Sullivans, and... Continue Reading →

Teacher Diaries: Your child is doing satisfactorily…at driving me bananas. Or, “Things I wish I could say on report cards.”


Twice a semester we as teachers are given the assignment to report on each student's individual progress in their academics, social, spiritual, physical, etc-eral well-being in school. So, six times a year, I'm suppose to think of 146 clever and... Continue Reading →

Teacher Diaries: Junior Highers are Contagious…


I am back at school! My second week of my second year of teaching is almost over, I can reach out and touch Labor Day weekend. It's been really good so far. My stress level is way lower this year,... Continue Reading →

M2M Twenty Ten : the Recap


Every summer since I was 13 I have gone on a week-long journey that helps me define who I am, or who I want to be; that snaps me into perspective; forces me out of my comfort zone and into... Continue Reading →

A little chicken fried, cold beer on a Friday night, pair of jeans that fit juuuust right…


Some say the three best things about being a teacher are June, July, and August. And sometimes I have to agree with that! Because I'm off right now, I got to take a full week to go visit my family... Continue Reading →

Teacher Diaries: I’m trippin….FIELD trippin!


I can’t believe I made it through my first year of teaching. I can’t. And that it went…wellish. I didn’t have too many horrible parent encounters of the third kind. I only suspended one student (for cutting my drama class... Continue Reading →

Teacher Diaries: Year One – Almost done! and more things I wish I hadn’t said…


Two and a half more weeks and I have survived my first year of teaching junior high Latin! Wow. Fastest year of my life. There were times I thought I wouldn't make it...either I'd get fired for saying something crazy... Continue Reading →

annual tragic birthday post. self-deprecation, attempts at life lessons, jokes about being a junior high teacher. the yooshh.


I'm 26? really? 26?!@ what the what. i never thought I would be this old. That is true. I mean, when you're growing up, you think about turning 13, 16, 18, 21, and than all the fantasies stop there, because... Continue Reading →

Teacher Diaries: Kids say the darndest things. Really.


So much funny happens on a daily basis that I want to write about. Unfortunately, like many of you, I'm sure, I spend a lot of time staring at a computer screen, slouched over a desk, slinging back lukewarm faculty... Continue Reading →

Teacher Diaries: The Secret Score of “Favorites”


I have favorites. Probably all teachers do. Kids we just like a little more...and I know we're not supposed to, but...well it just happens. I really try to approach each child the same. And I do love them all to... Continue Reading →

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