We arrived in time for the Hawaiian themed welcoming get together, complete with ice cream sundae bar. It was so nice to see some friends from the Not Alone Aphasia Group Zack goes to 2x/month at UNR, Tami and some SLP students Zack knows from UNR. David Dow, son of the co-founder Carol, told us …
Author: Sara Holm
Getting ready for Aphasia U Boot Camp
I change my story for everyone I tell. We're going to a speech convention. We're going to a speech workshop. We're going to a speech thing for Zack. This is how the organizers describe it: A 1 week educational and social program that supports people with aphasia in Las Vegas, followed by 3 weeks of daily …
morning messages
This is a post I've been thinking about for months and figured Presidents Day would be a good day to get it all done on 'paper'. When I first took my current kindergarten position last spring, one of the routines I knew I wanted to use again was a morning message. This year I read …
It’s the little things
This morning I woke up to this: I'm equally dreading and looking forward to meeting other caregivers of people with aphasia next month in Las Vegas. But the part of me that's looking forward to it wonders if they celebrate all the little things. Like the other day, I heard Zack say my name for …
A civil rights learning moment
Something has been brewing for a bit now and among other solutions, it seems like I should write about it. I'm honestly not sure how it started. The election? The rhetoric? My ongoing journey teaching at a private school this year? (I taught at a Title I school in Reno from 2010-2015.) Regardless, there was quite …
Sure, let’s ski the bear scratch
The Bear Scratch is a ski line that is not often skiable. It takes a LOT of lake level snow for this to be in consideration and just the right storm to get people excited about it. Snowpocalypse 2017 was that storm! Even though I didn't have school and Zack didn't have speech in Reno …
Snowpocalypse
There are two funny words for blizzards like the one we just had - snowmageddon, which I prefer because I love the silly movie Armageddon, and snowpocalypse. Yesterday we were walking and gawking through the neighborhood and Zack was saying snowpocalypse. I thought he said acropolis but he said close and eventually I got to …
sure
I've been thinking a lot about my #oneword2017. Last year's word, Up, came so easily and this year's did not. I considered breathe. This past fall I didn't take enough time to breathe and it really showed. I never felt settled into my new life as a kindergarten teacher and some parts of my regular …
Gratitudes – Day 10
My friend Ben hosted his #teachnvchat twitter chat tonight on the topic of gratitude so I figured I'd better add a quick post since I have so much to be grateful for. I got to have a work dinner with 2 of my favorite teachers at Lake Tahoe School. It has been a big adjustment …
Gratitudes – Day 9
Are anyone else's kindergarten students a bit crazed this week? I was hoping I would have a one week grace period where they were tuckered out from Thanksgiving festivities, happy to be back together and relieved to be back in the routine of school. A one week grace period. 4 days even. I would've taken …
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