He Said What?: Women Write About Moments When Everything Changed edited by Victoria Zackheim (Click on the image to buy the book from Powells.com or the text to buy from BarnesandNoble.com and I will receive a sliver of the profits… Read more ›
Recently, one of my former students came to me and asked for some book recommendations for over winter break because she had recently finished The Book Theif on my recommendation, and hadn’t been able to find anything that came close… Read more ›
Yesterday, I held my first rehearsal for the Contest Play, and I started by telling the students on my cast a little bit about myself. In my opinion, the most important detail I shared was that I am not nice.… Read more ›
Check me out! I’m on Teaching Tolerance today with my article, “Personal Connections Empower Students”: I just started my sixth year teaching high school English. This year began with the same question as always: “How will I empower the young… Read more ›
Today was the first day back at work after a wonderful Thanksgiving break. And I opened my inbox – which I had not checked even one time over break because I refused to get sucked into work on my time… Read more ›
This year – 2011, that is – I started by adopting a new mantra. In every situation that seemed really terrible, I’d ask myself, “What’s the worst that can happen?” If I don’t get these papers graded, what’s the worst… Read more ›
Well, I said I was coming back, and then I posted nothing for a week. I promise you, readers, I AM coming back. With a vengeance. Just as soon as our Internet starts working again. Yes, in true Thanksgiving irony… Read more ›
3 out of 5 stars How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran was selected for this month’s A Practical Wedding Book Club. Being a devout follower of A Practical Wedding, a lover of all things feminist, and mostly because… Read more ›
“Oh my gosh, a year ago you got married! Can you even believe it’s been a year?” I’ve been hearing this a lot lately, and, honestly, I can absolutely believe it’s been a year. Looking back, time has sort of… Read more ›
This is a guest post by the awesome Stephanie Farrell. You might remember her from this post previously. And now she’s back, being even more awesome. 🙂 Yay! The grass at our house had gotten way too long, and gone… Read more ›
This is a guest post by Julia Harpin for TV.com New fall shows this season seem to have way more female leads than usual. On its own, that’s awesome, and there are certainly some great female characters on TV right… 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 ›