No matter how much we love what we do, we all have those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days that get us feeling down on ourselves. It’s in anticipation of those days that I started a “Feelgood Folder”, a manila folder where I store thank-you cards & letters, commendations, emails, and anything else I [...]
Chance are slim to none that you’ve been reading this blog as long as I’ve been writing it (though I’d love to be proven wrong!). With that in mind, I thought I’d kick off October with some reruns a look back at some of my personal favorite posts from the past four-plus years I’ve been [...]
Just a couple of short notes today (in the style of The Jose Vilson); none of which merit their own blog post: Feed Me If you don’t have enough feeds in your RSS reader (and really, who ever has enough?), you can check my Google Reader shared items feed. This is the same feed or [...]
My recent stint filling in as a school psychologist in a maternity-leave position was unique to me for a few reasons. Not only was it my first “real world” exposure to working in the field (internship notwithstanding), but I was also working within a finite time period. This job had a “sell-by” date on it, [...]
Christian Long‘s summer vacation is off to a bang with the development of the first meme of the season, in which he asks: What was the “worst job” you ever had that ironically helped prepare you to one day become an educator? I’ve been extremely fortunate in that I’ve never had any terrible jobs, but [...]
