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 …
Category: reflection
Moving in and moving out and UP
I don't recommend that you move out of your house and into a new classroom in a new school at the same time. It wasn't planned to occur in the same weeks but here we are.. This weekend I'll take a break from school and focus solely on moving into the new house. If you …
bursting with anticipation!
This snowy morning I got to meet more parents of incoming kindergarteners of my new school, the Lake Tahoe School. I was anxious because I've never been to a meet the teacher coffee before and in this case, I was the teacher. I was anxious because being the center of adult attention is one of my …
coming up on a year later …
As I posted on facebook this past weekend, we just passed a year of Zack's first weekend in the hospital. He was admitted to Renown in Reno after a ct scan in Truckee showed a subdural hematoma. We saw Dr. Lynch (our future neurosurgeon, Dr. Perry's, partner) in the icu, had a visit from an …
Top 10 Books … for today!
I am lucky enough to be participating in a Voxer book club for Donalyn Miller's The Book Whisperer. Though I am not great at keeping up with the group or staying on topic, I have loved listening to conversations about school libraries, reading cultures, excitement about reading, staff book sharing; dormant, developing and underground readers. …
What’s the word, bird? UP!
Yesterday I had time to reflect on my #oneword2016 - UP. Zack and I were UP in an airplane on our way home from Nashville where I attended the Spring Convening for America Achieves national and Tennessee fellows. Spending minutes, hours and days with some of the most passionate, smartest, most thoughtful and kindest educators in the …
Finding words through others’
One of my favorite movies is Finding Forrester with Sean Connery and Rob Brown. Near the end of the movie, Connery's character, William Forrester, is at Brown's character Jamal Wallace's prep school defending his writing. To explain a prior indiscretion, Forrester says, "I helped him find his own words by starting with some of mine". This …
perspective – from the top and from the bottom
I love the challenge that #1every2weeks (1 blog post every 2 weeks) gives me and suddenly realized it's already January 11th so I better get going! Last Monday Zack and I were back at the UC San Francisco Hematology and Blood and Marrow Transplant clinic for a hematology follow up about Zack's future treatment. The waiting …
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#oneword … or two!
As is the case so often with this whole blogging thing, the first inspiration for this came from the blessing that is my LeadUp chat friends. Although I only know one of them in real, northern NV life, they are all my friends and supporters in real, twitter and voxer cross-country life. Mark introduced the idea of …
Thanks for the white space, Mother Nature
Yesterday (November 7 2015) the #leadup twitter chat was about white space, which was a new term but not concept to me. For years, my mom has taken 15 minutes each afternoon to put her feet up. She lies on the floor and rests her lower legs on a chair so that her hips and knees …
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