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1.494 Million Thoughts: Our Brains and the (Unending) Pandemic

Last week, I was standing in the hall at the high school, Thursday Exhausted, the type of tired teachers understand, feeling like a…

Nov 18, 2020

Nov 18, 2020

A First Farewell to My Senior Daughter — and Poetry at Night

Every day during my planning period, I walk to the cafeteria, make my husband a huge tumbler of tea, then deliver it to his classroom…

May 7, 2018

May 7, 2018

A First Farewell: To my Senior Daughter — and Poetry at Night

Every day during my planning period, I walk to the cafeteria, make my husband a huge tumbler of tea, then deliver it to his classroom…

Apr 27, 2018

Apr 27, 2018

Infant Loss and Saving Grace

On October 13, 2016, six months had passed since Stephanie Grace’s birth.

Apr 13, 2018

Infant Loss and Saving Grace

Apr 13, 2018

Thoughts On Cancer: The Third Time

I am just mad. Any blog about this cancer is going to have to start out with a lot of anger and wrath and ranting. As an English teacher, I…

Apr 11, 2018

Thoughts On Cancer: The Third Time

Apr 11, 2018

It’s as Awful as You Think: Cancer the Third Time

I am just mad. Any blog about this cancer is going to have to start out with a lot of anger and wrath and ranting. As an English teacher, I…

Feb 17, 2018

It’s as Awful as You Think: Cancer the Third Time

Feb 17, 2018

We Love Your Lost Dog

2/23/2017 This morning, when you woke up, maybe you rolled over and tearily told your partner: “Today is the day. It’s been a year. She’s…

Feb 27, 2017

We Love Your Lost Dog

Feb 27, 2017

Superior Christians: You’re No Better Than the Sinners Who Saw “50 Shades Darker”

Last Sunday afternoon, before the Super Bowl, I was tempted to put as my Facebook status, “Remember, everyone, God loves you whether you…

Feb 14, 2017

Feb 14, 2017

When Students Have a Valid Reason to Hate School /Thoughts on Teacher Validation

There is a quote on my classroom wall from one of my former students. Days before he graduated, fully pleased, he popped his head in my…

Jan 10, 2017

When Students Have a Valid Reason to Hate School /Thoughts on Teacher Validation

Jan 10, 2017

When Daddy Is Very Ill: Facing Serious Illness While Parenting Young Children

My husband Greg had a bone marrow transplant for Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) fifteen years ago. When he was diagnosed, our daughters…

Nov 8, 2016

When Daddy Is Very Ill: Facing Serious Illness While Parenting Young Children

Nov 8, 2016

RG

Teacher, foster and adoptive mother, wife of a three time cancer survivor; blogger at https://cynicalchristianlikeyou.wordpress.com/

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