What part of “Seek first my kingdom” do you not understand?

I feel as if God asked me this question today.  I was feeling lonely after spending the evening with friends and observing two friends of mine who are dating snuggle, play fight, hold hands, cuddle, and etc. in our group hang out session.  I mulled it over, praying that God would help me with these feelings [...]

Anansi Boys

Neil Gaiman is a perfect genius, I am sure.  I love how he writes a pages-turner full of absolutely nonsense.  I just finished Anansi Boys, and I read just about the entire thing today.   I would highly suggest it. It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long [...]

Women, Ministry, Snakes and Apples

For the last several weeks, our pastor has been preaching from 1 Timothy 2.  He has delved deeper and longer on one passage of scripture than I’ve ever experienced in a sermon setting.  He spent the last three or four sermons speaking on the last four verses of the chapter.  I’d like to include  my [...]

I would like to congratulate myself on actually blogging a bit more this year. Everyone have mini-dance party to celebrate my success.  Ok stop. That is enough. No need to get crazy. It’s summer and it’s already half over.  I had a marvelous July 4 weekend with two rounds of fireworks, cooking out, fun with [...]

A big, complicated word: Alive

In an episode of Doctor Who, the Tardis transfers into a human form and thus the Tardis is given the power of speech.  Some of her last words before transferring back into the blue box are: “I was looking for a word, a big complicated word, a sad word.  I have found it now: ALIVE. [...]

It’s finals, finals, gotta get down on finals.

Good parody in the works there, I think.  I usually tend to have several ideas for parodies but never follow through with them.   My  favorite idea was to parody Rihanna’s S&M song to be “C-H-E-M, chem chem chem.”  Of course, I am sure that my students would die of laughter. I was so looking [...]

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

No it’s not Christmas…. it’s Lent!!  The most wonderful time of the year, when God’s people sacrifice something in their life and turn to follow Him for 40 days, when we finally celebrate his Son and the sacrifice which saved our lives.   Every year I come to appreciate this time of year more and [...]

First Snow Day EVAR

So today my school took a snow day, and it took a “snowpocolypse” to do it.  It was much needed.  The other teachers aren’t kidding when they say that it takes a lot of effort to make it through the 3rd quarter.  I don’t want to be there, the kids don’t want to be there, [...]

Things I wish I would known prior to August

First, there are some simple things that teachers should invest in.. and mine will be mostly specific to science teachers, but then again maybe it is good for all teachers to invest in these things. Mythbusters / DVD’s within your subject matter Pencils, calculators, paper, markers or colored pencils (lots of these) Candy / Rewards [...]

Ten Reasons I Hate Buffets

I hate buffets.  My family is notorious for hitting them up whenever they want to eat out someplace “nice”.  Pretty sure the word “buffet” is French for “expensive crap”.   I have successfully avoided buffets for some time, and would never choose to go there myself.  However my family was here over the weekend and [...]