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,...
by krista | Aug 13, 2012 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
School starts for my kids and me tomorrow morning. Call me crazy, but I love the first day of school. Always have. I love buying school supplies. Love the piles of fresh paper, the smell of new pencils, the shiny highlighters full and ready to be used. As you can see,...
by krista | Aug 9, 2012 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
I grocery shop once a week. And I almost always manage to end up in the line where there is a price check, or where the cashier is being trained, or where one is trading with another and the switch-over requires a manager’s help…you get the idea. I spend...
by krista | Aug 6, 2012 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
I read a book about prayer yesterday. The take-home message I got from it was, “Find some big thing you want God to do and pray until you get it.” It’s a message I’ve heard often, one that can be supported with biblical examples. The Bible is full of...
