** Legal Stuff: I was provided a copy of The Priority List from Simon & Schuster to read and review here. ** I think we all, at some point in our lives, stop and think about the things that are most important to us. For David Menasche, The Priority List was something that his AP English students did for him each year. When faced with brain cancer, though, Menasche (as he is affectionately called) creates his own Priority List. Deciding to forgo further treatment for his deadly brain cancer, Menasche, almost completely blind and crippled decides to take to … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2014
Keep Swinging Your Arms
Something that I've read over and over is that moving your arms while you're running helps to propel you forward. I don't know if this is true or not, though all of the literature I've combed through tells me yes. On rough days, when it's freezing cold outside or I've circled the track over-and-over and I'm feeling like I could just stop- I push my arms back and forth. Even if it's just mental, I hope that by doing this, I will be propelled forward. In my quest to know more and be a "real runner," I have been reading books on running and buying magazines. In those … [Read more...]
Feelings of Failure
Today, I felt dumb. I walked into a computer-based testing center to take a test for educator licensing. More specifically, a professional knowledge test for Pre-K through 3rd grade. One that I did not feel adequately prepared for and really by no fault of my own I might add. Let's go back a bit... In 2005, I graduated from the best teacher education program at a small, liberal arts college in the country (I'm pretty biased here, so...). For four years I learned how to be a teacher. I took the Praxis I in reading, writing and math and the Praxis II in … [Read more...]
Thank You, Internet
Y'all. The Internet gives me many things. But this? I think we've reached an all new low. The Internet gave me this precious gift last night- Billy Ray Cyrus has remade Achy Breaky Heart. I mean, really? With a rapper? And the space-aged chicks? With the booty poppin'? And the smoke? And the lights? I can't. Send shrooms. Or Molly. Or acid. Cause that's what this video was made for. Trippin'. But I'm not promoting recreational drug use, cause- no. Did you miss the booty clap? And Billy Ray's raggedy hair? One more … [Read more...]
Baby It’s Cold Outside
I knew that I needed to run. I'd skipped two days- one at the conference and the day after. I had plans to run that day at the track at the high school, but it was a snow day- so I wasn't headed to work. My only other option? Was the great outdoors. But y'all- it was cold outside... and there was snow on the ground. But- I pressed on. Because I didn't want to be a quitter, which I have a tendency to do. I put on my tights, long-sleeved running shirt (with the thumb holes, because- YES thumb holes), grabbed my husband's scarf, my gloves, put my … [Read more...]