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Just thought that I would share a few images from my afternoon with Katie! Man, I am loving this time to hang out!

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Last week, my best good friend and I drove to Georgia from Kansas.  It was quite a trek, but we had a great time, and we often like to drive long distances, or at least we often do. To pass the time in the car, we decided that we would take pictures along the way [...]

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I am just sitting here thinking about how to attack all the grading that I have sitting around my office.  I know that I want to have it done by Friday, and I know that I don’t want to take things home with me this last week.  So, I have goals.  But, right now, that’s [...]

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me: “I think that I am the black sheep.” mom: “What if you aren’t a sheep at all?  What if they are sheep?” me: “Well, then what am I?” mom: “What do you want to be?” me: “I want to be the wolf that eats all the sheep!” mom: “That isn’t very nice, is it?” [...]

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I was reading on Dooce today about this photo exhibit, and I thought that I would share.  It is both a little creepy and fascinating to me at the same time.  I love the idea that we might get close to glimpsing the space between life and death.  And, I agree with Dooce that the [...]

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I get to go home and end this hellish day. Why does the day after spring break always have to be so painful?  I don’t remember this when I was a kid or even a student.  But, there is something about having to come back to school after a week off as a teacher that [...]

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This morning, my mother is leaving to go to China for 10 days. She has never left the country, so this is quite an adventure for her. She wanted to call me before she left, but we had been missing each other over the last week. So, this morning, she called….at 6am. She knew she [...]

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I am continually amazed by the fact that it takes me so long to get into the swing of the semester.  I think that this semester it is related to all the fun activities that I have going on, but whatever the reason is, spring break is only two weeks away, so I need to [...]

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Okay, so there were really only two exciting things that happened over Thanksgiving amongst a ton of stuff that we were supposed to be doing, but we chose to ignore. First, I cooked up a storm. I pretty much cooked for two days straight, and I must say. I am pretty proud of myself. Everything [...]

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