by krista | Sep 3, 2012 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
We all have goals. For those of you still in school, it may be good grades, a date with that special guy/girl, acceptance to a certain college. For the rest of us, it may be getting a raise, having a family, going back to school. None of these goals, in themselves, is...
by krista | Aug 30, 2012 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
Tattoos are incredibly popular. There are tattoo parlors all over the place – in storefronts, in malls, in the city and the country. There are upscale tattoo parlors, non-smoking tattoo parlors, tattoo artists working alongside make-up artists and hair stylists....
by krista | Aug 28, 2012 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
For a while this weekend, those of us here in Tampa thought Hurricane Isaac was headed our way. The storm was averted – good for us, not so good for our neighbors to the northwest – but we didn’t know that for sure until Monday morning. Or at least I...
by krista | Aug 25, 2012 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
“If you could have a superpower, what would it be?” When a group of my students answered that question last week, Invisibility topped the list. At this point in my life, my dream superpower would be Super-Metabolism: Being able to eat as much chocolate as...
by krista | Aug 22, 2012 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
School started last week for us, yesterday for the schools in our area. I was the “new kid” several times growing up, and my own kids have been the newbies quite a few times as well, so I have a soft spot for those coming into a brand new school....
by krista | Aug 16, 2012 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
“A Letter to my Eighth Grade Self” – that was the journal topic I assigned my twelfth grade English students this week. I loved reading these entries – insightful, funny, sarcastic. But one theme that I kept reading over and over again was,...
