We were so lucky that Ms. Madelyn let us participate in the Trout Release on March 26th. The big kids were in charge of them from egg to fry but there were enough that most lower school students got to carry one from school down to the stream and release it into the stream. My …
Tag: outdoors
Fall is here!
Although I didn't think this was the case, it turns I am ready for Fall Break next week! My mom parents are coming out for a western tour of their children (brother in Alpine, WY & sister in Boise) and Zack and I are going to take them down to Mono Lake and Yosemite for …

Hiking
It's like trail running but somehow better! I thought hiking was too slow for many years. The years I was trying to become a better trail runner! This summer I've tried to really embrace my days hiking with Zack and they've been great! I mean, look at these views! We left Reno at 7:09 (9 …
First Day of School!
In an attempt to get into a regular blogging habit, I'm going to try to post 1 picture and sentence/phrase/word each school day. The posts will be short. And some may not be particularly meaningful. But it will hopefully be a way to document my school year with the great kiddos I met yesterday and …
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 explainย a prior indiscretion, Forrester says, "I helped him find his own words by starting with some of mine". This …