Tag: higher education
Posted on November 27, 2016
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Today’s post is written by my student, Katrina King. As a mother, I can relate to the love and pride she expresses for her daughter in this letter. I hope to write a letter like this to Maggie someday. Dear Kai Hey girl, so I… Continue Reading “Dear Kai”
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Category: gratitudeTags: brother, college, gratitude, higher education, inspiration, Kai, Katrina King, Lord, love, moon and back, online courses, parenting, pray, role model, thankful
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 December 15, 2015
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Let me give you guys a quick snapshot of my life right now. I’m wrapping up my position as a full-time faculty member at a community college, grading finals like a demon while saying plenty of sad goodbyes to colleagues and students. I receive… Continue Reading “#bestprobs”
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Category: gratitudeTags: #bestprobs, balancing act, career, career success, changing perception, children, clarity, community college, divinely ordained, faculty, family, final exams, full-time, God, goodbye, grateful, gratitude, grief, grieving, higher education, IRA, job, keep on the sunny side, loss, mourn, office, online job board, parenting, part-time, perspective, potty training, relocation, retirement, thankful, work
Posted on November 23, 2015
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Jane, Jane, Jane, You’ll probably kill me for this (or at least you’ll want to). I can’t stop thinking about writing this letter to you, and when I can’t get something off my mind, I take action. I think you know this about me,… Continue Reading “Not so plain Jane”
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Category: gratitudeTags: Big's Restaurant, blessings, chocolate, class, coffee, companionship, confidence, confidentiality, entertainment, faculty, feelings, friends, friendship, fun, God, grateful, gratitude, higher ed, higher education, laughter, mock interviews, oral communication, perceptive, personality, photographs, plain Jane, second opinion, Seinfeld, talking, teaching, thank you, thankful, thanksgiving, trust, trustworthy, work
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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Category: gratitudeTags: babies, Barbie, better not bitter, choices, composition, divorce, Edna Mode, English, graduating with honors, graduation, higher education, honesty, Ken, lies, marriage, mom, mother, Mother's Day, motherhood, non-traditional students, oral communication, parenting, perseverance, playing house, promises, raising kids, speeches, stepmom, students, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift 22, teacher, teacher appreciation week, teaching, teaching college, The Incredibles, tie the knot, tying the knot, willingness, writing
Posted on December 17, 2013
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*Over the next few days, I’ll be posting essays by my amazing students who wrote in response to the question, “What are three gifts–proverbial or literal–that you’ve been given in 2013, and why are they significant to you?” Their responses made me laugh, cry,… Continue Reading “The gift of a second chance”
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Category: gratitudeTags: 2013 gift list, boyfriend, career, changes, Christmas gifts, CNA, college, dating, decisions, family, friends, friendship, gift, gift list, giving, grateful, gratitude, growth, higher education, hospital, job, love, mental health, online dating, personal growth, redemption, relocation, second chance, second chances, student, success, thankful, UACCB, university, wellness
Posted on November 25, 2013
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Day 25 in the Dear Gratitude project is submitted by yours truly :). Dear Need, I first remember meeting you, Need, when my father fell from his heroic platform in my mind. Grappling with drug addiction, he stood in our living room in Augusta,… Continue Reading “Day 25: Dear Need”
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Category: gratitudeTags: 1984, 2013 gratitude project, addiction, babies, blessings, children, college, dad, Dear Gratitude project, dental hygiene, dependency on God, divorce, drug addiction, family, father, gifts, God, grateful, gratitude, higher education, hope, Kansas, love, mom, motherhood, naomi shihab nye, need, needs and wants, parenting, poverty, recovery, sisters, spirituality, thankful, thanksgiving, The traveling onion, tornado, welfare, Wichita
Posted on November 14, 2013
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*It’s Day 14 of the Dear Gratitude project. Today, I’m sharing a letter to my students. There is no way I could ever thank each of them individually for all they’ve added to my life. I’m grateful for the opportunity to teach today, and… Continue Reading “Day 14: Dear students”
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Category: gratitudeTags: APPLE Project, Arkansas Baptist High School, bipolar disorder, college, Dear Gratitude project, ELL, ESL, feeling old, friendship, gay, grateful, gratitude, high school, higher education, homosexuality, hope, hope in this world, immigrants, joy, laughter, learning, lessons learned, Milli Vanilli, plagiarism, snapchat, students, suicide, suicide prevention, teach, teacher, teaching, thankful, thanksgiving, Youth Home, Yusef Komunyakaa
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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