Watching our Language
He was adorable. As I grabbed a dress here, a sweater there, I couldn’t help but notice him. Was he conventionally adorable, who knows? I’m not 13 any more. But he was adorable in the way that I appreciate in a teenager- earnest eye, humble air, vulnerable smile, and not embarrassed to be with his [...]
Be Careful What You Regift
A funny story from the summer of 2009… I cannot believe I am going to tell this story, but it’s been on my mind lately because my favorite summer pleasure this year is our new hammock which is actually a hammock that we’ve had for seven years and finally just put up this year. I [...]
Something is always missing
In my first year of teaching high school, my department head made a flip comment that it was a shame that I’d only be at the school for a few more years. I was teaching at a school that I had hand-chosen as my student teaching location and felt lucky to have been hired on as a teacher [...]
Summer of Intentionality Update
On Monday, I wrote out my lesson plan for the first day of my body image classes this fall. If anything tells me that summer is drawing to a close, it’s lesson planning. And though my school year starts back on August 22nd, I’m going with summer’s end as Labor Day. So, with that in [...]
Back on the bike, y’all.
A few weeks ago, I received an email from a friend who moved to England about five years ago. Before she moved, we were running partners and shared a general love of being outdoors and moving our bodies. On summer days where our workload at the local college wasn’t quite so intense and strident, we’d [...]
A simple rule: don’t engage crazy
The other day, I was telling a friend a story. I said something along the lines of, “And I wasn’t going to engage because one of my rules is Don’t Engage Crazy. You often can’t ignore crazy (because, let’s face it, the reason the person gets crazy is so that they are not ignored.) [...]
Small, Smaller, Smallest
Kate Giguere Morris was a student at Davidson College when I worked there, and I had the wonderful fortune of being able to work with her. She’s passionate and funny, whip-smart and compassionate, and she is an amazingly honest storyteller. Kate now lives in Iowa where she serves as a Hospice Chaplain. She also blogs [...]
