Uncategorized What If…We Turn Words Into Actions 23 Jan 202123 Jan 2021 "Words can launch us." ~ Bob Goff It was 📸picture day of my fifth-grade year. I chose the perfect 👚top for my school photo. I also slept in those pink…
Uncategorized What If… We Have Some Conversations 16 Jan 202118 Jan 2021 "I believe an important part of the cure, maybe the most crucial part of it, is to talk to each other." ~Emmanuel Acho When I step into the 🏫classroom each…
Uncategorized What If…Love is the Only Word We Need 30 Dec 20202 Jan 2021 A whole bunch of buzzwords became part of our daily language in 2020. 😷Mask up. Quarantine. Contact tracing. ➕Positivity rates. Social ⏪⏩distancing. Contactless delivery. 🔒Lockdown. Self-isolation. Face covering. Face shields.…
Uncategorized What If…the New Year Brings Promise 24 Dec 202026 Dec 2020 2020 has been a lot. 😵The crazy thing about 2020 is that it started off like any other year. Full of anticipation- complete with 🌟hopes and 🌟dreams. We had plans.…
Uncategorized What If…Manners Mattered? 12 Dec 202012 Dec 2020 Angelina and I stopped by a shop to pick up her new prescription 👓eyeglasses after school the other day. The sign at the 🚪door listed the necessary COVID protocols. It…
Uncategorized What If…We’re Surprised 4 Dec 20205 Dec 2020 My husband doesn't typically read my 📝writings before publishing. He doesn't even ask about the topics. Although I sometimes want feedback while I'm working on a project, Ken prefers to…
Uncategorized What If…We’re Grateful Every Day 28 Nov 202028 Nov 2020 November is the month that brings the whole idea of being 😍grateful out of the shadows and into the light. Thanksgiving is a big reason for that, of course. Having…
Uncategorized What If…Practice Introspection 17 Oct 202017 Oct 2020 I was 👟running on the trail when I started to smell smoke. It's not uncommon to smell smoke from a barbecue or the smell of a woodpile 🔥burning. It wasn't…
Uncategorized What If…We Lift Each Other 3 Oct 20203 Oct 2020 We spend a lot of ⏰time on the sidelines at volleyball games. It's a lot of fun to watch the teamwork, the awesome 🔥kills, those 💥aces, a few shots that…
Uncategorized What If…We Find Calm 26 Sep 202027 Sep 2020 I've noticed that I feel 🌅calm, and that sounds a little crazy to me, given this 👻insane year. 2020 hasn't been what any of us would have expected. There is…
Uncategorized What If…We follow the Example of RBG 19 Sep 202020 Sep 2020 The 🌎world lost a great one this week with the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 💔The United States lost an important Supreme Court Justice. 💔Women lost a champion. 💔Fighters for…
Uncategorized What I…We Don’t Try to Race Time 12 Sep 202012 Sep 2020 "Time waits for no one." -Folklore (dated as far back as 1225) Have you ever noticed that every single 🛑stoplight is red when you're in a hurry? What about those…
Uncategorized What If…We Do Things Right 27 Aug 202029 Aug 2020 School🍎 started this week, and I'm not afraid to say that I was 😬anxious about it. Let me tell you how I usually teach my students. There's a desk in…
Uncategorized What If…You Use Your Mission Field 19 Aug 202022 Aug 2020 In addition to publishing in this space, I have been posting weekly writings to my social media platforms. I don't share everything from this blog on social media. These Sunday…
Uncategorized What If…It’s the Same and Different 16 Aug 202016 Aug 2020 I haven't had much ⏰time for anything else this week because one thing has been on my mind and my schedule- 🏫school. This is the time of year that I'm…
Uncategorized What If… the Arrow is Shot? 7 Aug 20208 Aug 2020 I've heard a phrase a few times lately that sparked my interest to learn more.✨ It's actually a Buddhist parable that uses a metaphor of arrows to illustrate pain and…
Uncategorized What If…We Didn’t Share Everything? 1 Aug 20202 Aug 2020 (Fun fact before you read: As I was writing this piece in early March, I decided that there was a bigger story on the horizon. I scrapped this one to…
Uncategorized What If…Contradictions Hold the Keys 22 Jul 202026 Jul 2020 I love wordplay. There might be 🍌Bananagrams pieces on our kitchen table any given day. I like to rearrange the letters to spell words- looking for interesting ways to combine…
Uncategorized What If…Silence is Golden 17 Jul 202018 Jul 2020 When I was sharing a college dorm room with my bud from junior high, we had very different ideas of what we considered to be appropriate noise levels when 📚studying.…
Uncategorized What If…We Choose Not to Be Bored 11 Jul 202011 Jul 2020 When we were in the lockdown phase of this 😷pandemic, I was thanking my lucky ✨stars that I didn't have small children at home anymore. Don't get me wrong. I…
