How is academic assessment like weeds? Academic assessment. It’s infiltrated the news and caused quite a stir over the last 15 years. When my youngest daughter was in first grade, I remember her coming home filled with anxiety. “Mom. We…
Year: 2018
Disruption
What do you do when you have a gazillion ideas and you can’t pick the ONE? You know, the one right one… And you are already supposedly successful in your “chosen field” because you’ve been doing it for about a…
Demons
My wish for you is that your demons don’t run deep. I’m in the process for looking for a new place to live. Timing is far from the best. It is the end of the semester. I have grading I…
Why I Bother!
I have considered all sorts of rationalizations about writing this post. I have had a lot of other things on my mind: career options, money, bills, daylight savings time (why I’m so tired), weight, weight-loss (or lack thereof), a…
Tagged with: don’t give up, follow through, mindset, motivation, perseverance, promises, showing up, writing
Not Bad doesn’t mean Good
Over the last two days I have heard two different people talk about the value of clarity in defining goals. It suddenly struck me, as though I’d had my head in the sand, that I have been about the least…
The Blessing in Broken
Broken. It doesn’t seem that it would be a good thing. But when you turn around the way you look at it… When something is broken, you face the decision. Can I or should I repair it? Or has its…
Tagged with: self worth
Anyone Home?
Hello? Hi! How are you? (Siiigggghhhhh)! Well let me tell you about what’s going on (going wrong) now. xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx OK, well I’ve got to go. Talk to you later. Uhm (click) Ok, bye? I’ve been thinking a lot about…
Love yourself – even your messy bits!
So, true picture. This is my closet. Or at least it was a week ago. It looks better now – kind of – a little! Lol!!! But this isn’t about my closet or getting things in order. I know that…
Rewriting past Stories
Cue the sound effects! (Neighhhhhhhh) (Pppppppp) The sound of a horse could be heard across the parking lot, down the hall, or around the corner. But it wasn’t a horse, but the boys. They would see me coming and they…
Do we have to identify the finish before we start?
Have you ever had a hard time starting because you didn’t know what the finish looked like? It feels like our lives are leaning more towards a need to be certain and away from a sense of uncertainty or even…
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