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Tag: education

  • Easter Blessings

    Grace is easy to accept, but hard to extend.

  • The House of Omicron

    Just because we are “done” with this pandemic doesn’t mean it’s done with us.

  • A Thin White Line

    Yesterday started typically, as one would expect a few days into a stint of comprehensive distance learning. My alarm went off at seven. I poured yesterday’s remaining coffee from the pot into a mug and put it into the microwave replacing an older mug—from when, I couldn’t say. I fed and dressed both girls and…

  • The Motherhood Dilemma

    Pregnancy and motherhood is not a sin.

  • America’s Got Talent

    Anyone can learn anything, the mind and body can be trained to do something new.

  • 99 Jobs and Then Some

    Eliana went back to school this week, and I am so, so grateful. For the last year I’ve been her mom and her teacher. The curriculum was through Hillsboro Online Academy, so technically there was another human on the other side of town somewhere grading her work, but I was the one facilitating the learning.…

  • Keys to Success

    When I was in fourth grade, my family moved into Married Student Housing so my father could go to graduate school. The apartments came with a small shared music practice room that included an old upright piano. One summer, my mom signed me up for lessons at the rec center and I would practice every…

  • Our History Month

    We don’t have to be the same to get along.

  • Canceled

    So many cultural things that I grew up with have been canceled. I agree than lots of songs and shows in the 1980s and 1990s were trash, but others have been deleted, not because of problematic content, but because of problematic creators. The Cosby Show for example was a staple of most households for a…

  • All Voices Matter

    If you can’t handle February, then maybe you won’t appreciate being challenged all year long.