I lost my iPod for a few hours this afternoon. I had it all day yesterday, but I didn’t have it with me this morning when I left the house. I thought, “No big deal–I’ll get it when I get home.” Well, I looked everywhere when I got home, and it was [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Surprises in Store
Posted in Thinkings, tagged Death Cab for Cutie, iPod, New Year on 31 December 2007 | 2 Comments »
“Let my glad heart . . . Thee in all proclaim”
Posted in Thinkings, tagged Christmas, iPod, Passion Worship Band on 25 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Can a child presume to choose where or how to live?
Can a Father’s love refuse all the best to give?
Let my glad heart, while it sings, Thee in all proclaim
And, whate’er the future brings, glorify Thy Name
Lawrence Tuttiett, 1864
It’s chilly here on Christmas night. My childhood bedroom has two outer walls, as well as an [...]
What? Me? A Teacher?
Posted in Schoolteacherish, tagged Teaching on 21 December 2007 | 1 Comment »
On Wednesday, I finished with my very first semester of full-time teaching. In other words, I am a teacher with 18 weeks experience. In other words, I MADE IT! I have survived, and thrived, and loved this job. It’s unlike every other job I’ve had, and I’ve had some good ones.
My kids make me laugh [...]
Christmas Spirit
Posted in The Enclave, tagged Christmas, John Krasinski, Josh Groban, Madeleine L'engle, Starbucks, The Beatles, The Office on 19 December 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last night my roommates and I had our Christmas celebration. We’ve lived in our lovely little duplex (“The Enclave of Abnormality”) for nearly a year, but this is our first Christmas together. We began the festivities at the mall, where our first destination was The Gap. Was our goal shopping? Oh no. We couldn’t afford Gap clothes in our [...]
A little more grown up?
Posted in Thinkings on 18 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It would give me a distinctly odd feeling to move to a new apartment or house, without ever touring the space and figuring out where I will sleep and where the bathroom is. It would be even more odd if I had done so and immediately hosted a large cocktail party for a hundred strangers. Awkward, [...]
“If language is to be revived . . . violence must be done to it.”
Posted in Thinkings on 17 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Madeleine L’engle can introduce this new endeavor much better than I could.
“To do violence to language . . . means really speaking to each other, destroying platitudes and jargon and all the safe cushions of small talk with which we insulate ourselves; not being afraid to talk about the things we don’t talk about, the [...]
