• The Art of Book Recommendations

    As a one-on-one teacher, the best part of my job is getting to curate a list of book recommendations for my students based on their interests, reading levels, and books they’ve liked or disliked in the past. While my students will typically only read two or three of these books (the most a student has…

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  • Feeling the Spark Again

    Feeling the Spark Again

    It has been well over two month since my last post, and a lot has happened in my life and the world around us since then. With everything going on, I have been feeling completely uninspired to write. During this quarantine, I have even dismantled most of my writer’s platform in the fear of becoming…

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  • A White Woman on the Racism of White Women

    If you are an American who keeps up with current events to any sort of capacity, you will have heard all about the protests for Black Lives Matter, George Floyd’s murder by a white cop, and probably even the viral video of Amy Cooper using her white supremacy to terrorize a man who just wanted…

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  • The Blurring Flow of Time

    Time is beginning to blur together. I did not realize it had been almost a month since my last blog post until I looked at the dates. Tomorrow is Memorial Day, and it seems that holidays and the change in temperature are the only things helping me to keep track of the flow of time.…

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  • The Detriment of Setting Lofty Goals

    What I have discovered about myself recently is that I set goals that are extremely hard to reach. At times, I have even changed goals that are challenging but still obtainable into larger goals that I just can’t quite meet. The problem with this is, even though I have achieved or even surpassed the original…

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  • Making the Most out of Working From Home

    I am one of the fortunate people of the world who has been able to maintain their job by working from home. Working for a school that already had a virtual learning system in place for our students who needed it, we had a smoother transition into working from home than most people. Still, my…

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  • When Writers Block Has You in a Strangle Hold

    I have been struggling the past month or so with working through writer’s block. When I was younger, I thought writer’s block was just an excuse people gave themselves for being lazy, but over the past few years, I have had several instances of writer’s block that have taken months and months of productive writing…

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  • Tips on Surviving Self-Isolation

    Today marks the beginning of the second week I have been working from home, teaching my classes virtually. Thankfully, the school I work for already had a system of virtual learning in place that we were all trained for because many of our students had different conditions leading them to take classes from the comfort…

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  • We Will Survive the Year 2020

    I think we can all agree that this year started off far more poorly than we were hoping for. And I know that’s an understatement, but anyone who has been aware of the state of things around the world knows what the hell I’m talking about. We don’t need to rehash everything that’s happened. You…

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