Author: Laura Hewett

There's a delightful saying from the podcast "Welcome to Nightvale" that you can buy on a t-shirt on their website: Pain is just pain entering the body. You can also…

Today's Scripture readings in church both talked about how Jesus charged his followers to be witnesses. The chaplain was explaining how we can not only talk about what we've seen…

I reported last week that I made some great successes and walked a couple days in a row without my braces. I'm happy to update that I continued the successful…

When I was student teaching, I got to read the book Wonder aloud with a class of rambunctious seventh graders. That is a powerful text, and I was so excited…

Growing up, I'd regularly hear my parents start a story with, "George Wood, the guy who married us..." I mean, this was probably once a month. And I'm not exaggerating…

There's a story recounted in two of the Gospels about the Pharisees asking Jesus for a miracle. He replies with a measure of sass according to the Message translation: "All…

https://youtu.be/CrycLMsoYjU?si=9GHSW6bp2ekrNFTq I love Zach Anner. He's a hilarious comedian who uses his disability in a positive way without making himself a trope. He made this workout video several years ago…

Sometimes teenagers are punks who try to test boundaries and stress out the adults who love them. Sometimes adults are equally obnoxious as they struggle through new personal growth. Hopefully…

Sometimes my cultural analogies are lost on students. For example, yesterday I tried to tell a student my seemingly tedious assignment to him was his "wax on, wax off" task…

So I really love cheesecake. It's delicious.  One of my students found out and promised to make me a boss cheesecake. This escalated in importance when I found out he'd…

If you haven't listened to Rend Collective's latest album, you're wasting your life. I'm currently obsessed with several songs, but "Counting Every Blessing" resonated pretty well with me tonight. As…

First of all, I want to give a huge thanks to those who prayed through my birthday prayer requests this weekend. I warned you my post this week might be…

My German choir is learning a rendition of the Charlie Chaplin song "Smile," and I really can't stop smiling at the cute German accents pronouncing the soft "ch" in "aching"…

I just had an amazing two hour conversation with one of my best friends across the ocean. Shannon and I were going over the details of the stress and celebrations…

I told my friend I was going to go to bed in half an hour... and that was like fifteen minutes ago. Sometimes I can blast out an update quickly,…

I’m posting this update later than normal, and I’ll ask for your forgiveness, a mercy if you like, as I give all the details of my full and adventurous previous…

So I accidentally wiped my whole hard drive yesterday when an update on my computer went wrong. Don't worry, the only document I didn't have backed up anywhere was the…

I finally made it to Christmas break. It was a bit touch and go at the end, but I took it one day at a time. Actually, to be completely…

Like all healthy people, I like happy things. I look for them to celebrate, and I create positivity when I can. I have a lot of negative crap in my…