I just wrote and scheduled my post about our anniversary. Yay! It’s only a week away. 🙂 And, as a nice early anniversary present, our picture is on A Practical Wedding’s anniversary post today! Yay! Happy Friday, everyone. Related PostsEveryone’s… Read more ›
So, I’m driving to school today, and I’m on the highway, in the middle of three lanes. Some idiot next to me on the right is behind a truck, and he wants to get over, so he starts to inch… Read more ›
I came across an interesting post at A Practical Wedding the other day about whether or not a woman should call her husband “husband”: It feels archaic. It feels symbolic of a role he doesn’t play and like a counterpart… Read more ›
Today, I’m over at Gender Across Borders talking about Wangari Maathai, the first African Woman to Win the Nobel Peace Prize. In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level… Read more ›
Yea, so I haven’t been posting here so much this week. Why? Well, honestly, I haven’t really felt like it? I’m trying to compose an anniversary post about Tim and my anniversary – since that is what this whole blog… Read more ›
Thanks to my pal, Veronica, I saw this article about how women who are now between the ages of 33 and 46 (Generation X) are working harder and having fewer children. In an interview about the study with Sylvia Ann… Read more ›
I have a problem with holding on to old clothing. I’m not sure why this is the case. Maybe it’s because I remember special occasions on which I wore these clothes, or maybe it’s because I bought them on vacations,… Read more ›
I set out to write a post a few days back about positive images of independent, married women in pop culture, and I ran into a problem. I couldn’t think of any. The closest I could come was Mad About You,… Read more ›
Commenter kb left an interesting comment on my post, Working on a Kinder Marriage a few days ago, and I wanted to address it in a post rather than a comment reply because I think it is such an interesting… Read more ›
I’m over at Gender Across Borders today, talking about US and global viewpoints of single-sex classrooms: Picture this: A 120-pound, 5’5″, white, 23-year-old teacher stands in front of a classroom of 30 juniors in high school who are mostly Black… Read more ›
They say that the worst thing after a big life event, whether positive or negative, is the year that follows. It’s a year of anniversaries, because you remember how different life was a year ago before the big event. I… Read more ›
The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate My rating: 5 of 5 stars My friend, Amanda, gave me an advance copy of The Tast of Salt a little while back, and I picked it up shortly thereafter because the cover… Read more ›
So. I was all ready to start working on a kinder marriage the other day. And the first time I was tested, I was a major fail. Tim’s training for the marathon, right? So he runs after school three days… Read more ›
Apparently, an elite education has its disadvantages. Yet it is precisely that opportunity that an elite education takes away. How can I be a schoolteacher—wouldn’t that be a waste of my expensive education? Wouldn’t I be squandering the opportunities my… Read more ›
Tim and I have been fighting this week. If you read this blog regularly or know me even a little bit, you are probably not surprised. Why ever would we be fighting? Whatever could we have to fight about? It… Read more ›
Thanks to Amanda, I saw this article the other day that told me and every other woman with an engagement ring out there, When On An Interview, Leave The Bling At Home. Apparently some jobseekers have damaged their chances for… Read more ›
We’re reading Anthem and Fahrenheit 451 in my College Prep and Honors classes respectively (all sophomores), and they all read The Hunger Games for their summer reading, and I’m using this infographic to discuss the modern implications of censorship and… Read more ›