Author: Laura Hewett

I love my job. I love it so much. I get to teach students about the Bible and how to read well. I have the privilege of doing this every…

I've had almost two weeks back home now, and I'm almost settled into a routine - just in time for school to start and change my schedule. I'm so ready…

There are four things that I'm exceptionally passionate about: literature, the Bible, my students, and Jesus. I light up when I get to talk about them. Conversely, I'm visibly disheartened…

Kandice and I talked early in our week at the start of this month about me having an extra session with her to check in with my progress before I…

One of my students told me she was twitter famous because she had a really high number of followers. When I told her how many blog hits I had, she…

Trauma is a difficult thing. It affects everyone differently. I’ve tried very hard to be open about my experience, but I need to reiterate that my fall was a traumatic…

My body has been through a lot in the last five days, and it's been an incredible experience. Kandice and I worked through a lot of different exercises and practiced…

I'm so grateful for the physical therapy care I've been provided over the last year and a half. From Saskia at the hospital the first week after my accident to…

With the bar set high from yesterday's adventure, I showed up after breakfast with one of my favorite students ever ready for more amazing discoveries about my body. We started…

Yesterday being such a full day, I slept hard and struggled to get out of bed this morning. However, I was eager to get back to work with Kandice and…

As I hinted at before, I have a week of intensive therapy planned here in Portland. Today was day one of my therapy at ADAPT Advanced where I'll be learning…

These past two weeks have been a blur for me, and as exhausting as they've been, I've been so blessed by my extended family. I wrote last week about spending…

A lot has happened in the last week, and it would take me thousands of words to recount it all. Rather than focusing on the frustrations of airport staff referring…

The BFA yearbook came out today, and the title each year is "Phases." I love that title. BFA is a phase of life for students at BFA and many of…

Every teacher hates variations of the question "What's the least we can do to pass?" I'm no exception. I inwardly (and sometimes outwardly) groan every time a student asks how…

This weekend I went over to some friends' house for dinner, and we ended up playing Settlers of Catan. At one point in the game, I blocked another player from…

Oedipus knew the standard route of walking when he solved the riddle of the Sphinx, but I totally throw the pattern off. I went from two legs to four wheels and…

My posts here have slowed down, but that's only because my life hasn't. I had some high and low and hilarious moments over the past two weeks. Just after my…