Posted on January 9, 2019
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My former student, Sarah Humway, wrote this post as an essay for English Comp I class last fall. I loved it and asked if she’d allow me to share it with all of you. She agreed. Thank you, Sarah! The most influential person in… Continue Reading “Mimi’s influence”
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Category: gratitudeTags: adoration, antique, Arkansas, common bond, divorce, English, grandma, grandmother, grateful, gratitude, hobbies, influential, Jonesboro, lavender, love, Mimi, mountain view, redhead, relationships, Sarah Humway, similarities, support
Posted on November 7, 2016
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I found myself whispering, too, even though I wasn’t the one hiding in a closet while a drunken man beat on the door. “Bridgett, it’s okay. You’ll be okay. You do not have to answer that door. DO NOT answer the door, okay?” Bridgett… Continue Reading “Say yes”
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Category: gratitudeTags: abuse, alcoholism, being there for others, disclosure, domestic abuse, drunk, English, fear, God, grateful, gratitude, helping others, higher education, homosexuality, Kristin Wiig, lessons learned, opportunity, oral communication, redemption, relationships, responding to God, Saturday Night Live, say yes, SNL, spirituality, teaching, thankful, TRiO programs, Upward Bound
Posted on May 9, 2015
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Lizard, Thank you for breaking me in back when I turned 22. There was nothing Taylor Swift about it. Your dad and I tied the knot three weeks after I graduated from college and three weeks after my birthday, and I frantically searched for… Continue Reading “Teaching me to mother”
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Posted on July 21, 2014
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As I gear up to go back to work full-time this fall, transitioning from an adjunct instructor to a full-time English instructor, I find myself fluctuating between excitement and eager anticipation and anxiety and grief as I let go of this period of my… Continue Reading “For her curls”
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Posted on August 10, 2013
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A wise woman named Mauzelle who managed the Arkansas Methodist Church archives at Hendrix University once told me, as she tried to share her lunch with me while I researched Methodist women in the Ozarks, that she loves history and wants to do everything… Continue Reading “Learning to teach”
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Category: gratitudeTags: algebra, education, educators, elementary school, English, grateful, gratitude, gratitude list, Grizzly Adams, Hendrix University, high school, higher ed, higher education, history, kindergarten, Methodist Church, Princess Leia, Star Wars, teachers, teaching, thankful, we are who they were
Posted on July 19, 2013
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I’ve said NEVER about plenty of things. And eaten my words plenty of times, too. “I will NEVER get divorced.” Done. Twice. “I am NEVER going to be one of those people who moves back to the middle of nowhere as an adult!” Done.… Continue Reading “Never say never”
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