(my daily blog)
After several years of sassy side ponytails, braids, buns, curls, headbands, fun chalk color, feathers, and clip-on extensions, my fashionista daughter’s hair needed some serious
I ease a dusty Madame Bovary off of the bookshelf. I love this novel and decide to read it again. In the Foreword, I read
I love checklists. I even love them for my writing. Here’s a nice one I’m giving my students tomorrow. I want every sentence to shimmer.
Twice today, someone advises me to “ask God for wisdom.” By quoting James 1:5 (“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who
I enjoy watching Jack lounge. It’s a hard life for a cat with one eye. He needs to lounge indeed. He finds the coziest spot
My friend recently suggested a new way to enact “Friday Family Night.” (Thanks, Stephanie!) In her family, a different family member is totally in charge
This week, I lead a seminar on “burnout” for instructors. Ironically, I’d been feeling disengaged, exhausted, bored, and unmotivated myself. Sometimes, I have weeks when
All morning at my desk, I hear the drip, drip, dripping of melting snow and ice. We’re thawing, folks. Water trickles down the gutters and
My daughters are too old for the “tuck in blessing” I performed when they were toddlers. Back then, they loved how I put each and
With school canceled due to an impending snow storm, we stay warm inside and have a quiet day. It’s dreary. But then I observe my