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
2020 has been a year rife with heartbreak and hardships. I mean, it got to the point where my mind permitted itself to focus on one thought, and not eight. The only way I got through the year was finding who my pillars were, and reconnecting with those I lost touch with. Working with new … Continue reading Luddite
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
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
