Some Kind of Normal
"We have weird lives," Givorgy told me this week. It's true. But also, we have these beautiful lives where I get to spend time talking with people about cross cultural…
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July 21, 2024
The Ordinary
You know when your body somehow holds out until you have a break to get sick? Yeah, my body nailed it. I decided to take two weeks off to give…
July 14, 2024
Midwinter Christmas
A week ago was the Māori new year celebration called Matariki, and our city had a light show set up to enjoy in the cold dark evenings. I'm really fortunate…
July 7, 2024
Playlist 2024
My favourite tradition on this blog is to write a Myspace style playlist for my life each year. This tradition started in June 2015, and you can follow these links…
June 30, 2024
Celebrations
I take celebrating seriously. I also am a bit ridiculous when it comes to finding small things to celebrate. I used to keep a bottle of champagne in my fridge…
June 23, 2024
Professional Development
In order to renew my Oregon teacher's license every few years, I was required to submit paperwork to prove I'd done enough professional development credits. I usually scrambled over Christmas…
June 16, 2024
First Training
My librarian friend texted me asking for book recommendations on mentoring. I had a couple, and I asked Matt his ideas, but he agreed most mentoring learning doesn't come from…
June 9, 2024
Hospital Connoisseur
No one plans to have a life where you can rank the quality of international urology departments at spinal hospitals, but here I am to save you all from doing…
June 2, 2024
Solitude
My life group started doing this thing where we integrate spiritual practices into our lives and discuss it. The first one we started with was solitude which I love. However,…
May 26, 2024
Mini Big Top
I'm so far from perfect, and I had a steep learning curve with some new situations that I didn't handle perfectly these past few weeks, but I also had an…
May 19, 2024
I Am Jonah
Ages ago I took a course from Ray Lubeck where I got to study the book of Jonah in depth as I learned how to read the Bible well. A…
May 12, 2024
Fresh Start
I had a few dozen ideas for what I wanted to be when I grew up that shuffled around until I settled on English teacher when I was in year…
May 5, 2024
Nothing Much
People keep asking me what I've done through the week, and my response is always an embarrassed, "nothing much," but, honestly, I'm in the rest phase of my sabbatical, and…
October 21, 2018
Life as Unusual
People keep asking me what I've done through the week, and my response is always an embarrassed, "nothing much," but, honestly, I'm in the rest phase of my sabbatical, and…
October 14, 2018
The Secret Life of Books
People keep asking me what I've done through the week, and my response is always an embarrassed, "nothing much," but, honestly, I'm in the rest phase of my sabbatical, and…
October 7, 2018
Isolation
People keep asking me what I've done through the week, and my response is always an embarrassed, "nothing much," but, honestly, I'm in the rest phase of my sabbatical, and…
September 30, 2018
Garden City
People keep asking me what I've done through the week, and my response is always an embarrassed, "nothing much," but, honestly, I'm in the rest phase of my sabbatical, and…
September 23, 2018
To the Ends of the Earth
People keep asking me what I've done through the week, and my response is always an embarrassed, "nothing much," but, honestly, I'm in the rest phase of my sabbatical, and…
September 16, 2018
Priorities
People keep asking me what I've done through the week, and my response is always an embarrassed, "nothing much," but, honestly, I'm in the rest phase of my sabbatical, and…
September 6, 2018
Culture Shock
People keep asking me what I've done through the week, and my response is always an embarrassed, "nothing much," but, honestly, I'm in the rest phase of my sabbatical, and…
August 30, 2018
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