Looking for the original post of the image I wrote about last week led me to some great inspirational pages. One of the best ones I found was this: I love this for a lot of reasons. It definitely reminds me of RBG, but it instantly made me think of teaching. Reaching some students has …
This quote has been on my mind of late. Being locked up from what we considered our normalcy has resulted in some serious reflection and perusing of inspirational posts on a Pinterest board. That reflection is what led me to Full Sail’s Creative Writing program in the first place. I was set to begin a …
I received a mystery gift this weekend. With the pandemic, packages come straight to the door instead of being left at the office, so it was odd that I got a notification saying that something was there to be picked up. My other half went to retrieve it and it was a Halloween gift basket. …
I was struggling to fid the right sounds for an assignment this week. So much so that I was still working on it today, the day it’s due. I try to avoid that at all costs, but this week was brutal and it became an unavoidable necessity. The wind was battering the branches and making …
This week, I started writing in my gratitude journal and journal again. It’s something I do on and off and I always notice my change in outlook when I do it regularly. 2020 is a nightmare of a year to begin with. We are in the midst of a global pandemic. In the US, we …
Seems like a simple question, right? What’s important to you? Answer it and you’ll have a clear path of where to go and what to do. You’ll be able to discern exactly wat you want and will have no question on what you need to do to attain it. You will have achieved your goal, …
Feminist bastion of social justice and equality reform, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, died today at age 87 from complications with the pancreatic cancer she’s battled for years. She was a prominent icon in my world since her appointment to the court in 1993. She has always been an outspoken leader in fights against …
Anyone who knows me knows of my undying love for the Backstreet Boys. I remember their first concert in Chicago—September 27, 1997 at the Vic. (Yes, I had to look the exact date up. I’m not that crazy.) I didn’t attend; we went to the homecoming dance that night. We were juniors, after all. We …
There are students at the school I teach at who are changing the way our district is handling BIPOC curriculum. They’ve demanded inclusion, they’ve demanded change, and they’ve been heard. This week, the Board of Education officially adopted the Know Justice Resolution. Four high school young women are among the most inspirational people of 2020 …