Teacher • Runner • Competitive • Environmentalist • Spend 76% of my day outdoors, mainly watching critters run up trees • Simultaneously a night owl and an early bird • What I lack in polychrome fashion choices I make up in personality. • Tend to speak in hyperboles • "I'm trying very hard not to connect with people right now." – David Rose
I want you to settle in, grab a coffee or start your nightly routines. I'm going to introduce you to Adam. Just to be clear, Adam is not based on a person nor is he a person. He is a concept in my mind but, addressing him as a person will make it easier for … Continue reading Adam
The moment we get stuck, we panic (for me anyways). Something in our mind tells us there's an urgency to find a solution because the more we dwell on it, the more consuming it becomes. I have 9 published and 13 drafted. I've been on a hiatus with writing (I mean, I've been writing consistently … Continue reading Stuck
I'm not talking about my fear of the dark or certain people's irrational fear of spiders and centipedes. But if you are one of those people that have a fear of bugs, just know that house centipedes eat spiders, so pick one to save because you can't have it both ways. This post won't be … Continue reading Fears
I put 110% into my career as a teacher even though I consciously know I run at 100. The added 10% is reserved for my students that just need a little bit more: an end of the day check-in, a 2-minute conversation about their bombed math test in the hall or a quick email to … Continue reading Reciprocate
I have a habit of leaving my deskspace with destroyed paperclips, worn out hair ties and ripped up straw wrappers. These were the footprints of a tacile being such as myself. How in the world does anyone ever 'sit still' to focus? My goodness! The idea of it is already making me antsy. I constantly … Continue reading Focus
Ahlie means right? Or truth. I learned it from my students this year who harped on me for using the Oxford Dictionary over Urban Dictionary. The amount of times I'd mispronounce one of their words and get called uncool was one for the books. I'd give them the same look they gave me when I … Continue reading Ahlie
A couple months ago, I was shopping at Pandora and a saleslady had approached me to ask if I was looking for anything in particular. If you know me, you know I hate shopping and I only go into stores if I know exactly what I want. I told her the ring I wanted, the … Continue reading Cupcakes
I needed everything to be varying degrees of perfection. For the longest time, I was trying so hard to combine a spectrum of greys into a solid shade only now realizing that it was simply impossible. How could I gear one lesson to meet the needs of 29 creative human beings? It was exhausting trying … Continue reading Process
At the end of the year, I did this activity with my students called “On the Line”. I actually took the idea from a movie called Freedom Writers and tweaked it a little so I can’t take any credit for it. But, I highly recommend the movie if you haven’t seen it already. I’m pretty … Continue reading Line
I'd like to dedicate this post to one of my dear friends. I had lunch with an old colleague of mine (we'll call him Mr. C) and I was explaining to him how GPSs were confusing because they used cardinal directions. How was I suppose to know where North was if I was lost? He … Continue reading North
The Greyish Areas 