Tag: Teachers

We are all teachers. But we are all students.

I once saw someone who was wearing a tee-shirt that read: I homeschool because I have seen the village and I don’t want it raising my kids. While I certainly understand the sentiment behind that statement, a part of me worries as well about the children this person is homeschooling. One day, they will be […]

Find your spark. Reignite your flame.

Yesterday, a group of friends and I did something that made my heart sing, even though it still feels like mourning sometimes. We gathered up all of the tissue boxes that had been donated at the visitation and funeral of our dear friend and church member, Margo Belote Murillo, whose death I wrote about just […]

Favorite Teachers: Professor Alley

It’s teacher appreciation week in most of the United States, and since I think a great deal about the teachers I have had over the years, I decided to try to write about some of them this week. By no means is this a comprehensive list. But I continue my posts with one of the […]

Favorite Teachers: Mrs. Pelayo

It’s teacher appreciation week in most of the United States, and since I think a great deal about the teachers I have had over the years, I decided to try to write about some of them this week. By no means is this a comprehensive list. But I continue my posts with one of the […]

Favorite Teachers: Miss Goettinger

It’s teacher appreciation week in most of the United States, and since I think a great deal about the teachers I have had over the years, I decided to try to write about some of them this week. By no means is this a comprehensive list. But I continue my posts with one of the […]

Favorite Teachers: Mr. Madrid

It’s teacher appreciation week in most of the United States, and since I think a great deal about the teachers I have had over the years, I decided to try to write about some of them this week. By no means is this a comprehensive list. But I will start with one of the ones […]

Advice….

I have heard a great deal of writing advice over the years. The ones that seem to stick out the most in my mind though are the writing advices given to me by my teachers of so long ago. In middle school, I had a teacher who drummed it into my head that words like […]