The trouble with blogging is that sometimes you have everything to write about, and so you put it off. Then, before you know it, you have been on a hiatus for months and you don’t know where to go back. It is in moments like these that I must remind myself of the true purposeContinue reading “The Trouble with Blogging (& Also Life)”
Category Archives: Silly
Je Suis . . . Super Sucrée!!!
Every year for Halloween, I dress up. I think teachers who don’t dress up without a good reason are kind of a drag, to be honest. But I’m also a big nerd who loves to stay creatively on/near the topic of my content-matter as much as possible. SO, typically, I try to pick a costumeContinue reading “Je Suis . . . Super Sucrée!!!”
Loquaciousness, Verbosity, and Siblings
Recently, somewhat out of the blue but much to my delight, my brother decided to throw down a challenge in my direction. . . This was immediately followed up with a full-family-facebook conversation, complete with loving taunts. So, when faced with all of this chatter, I decided to attempt to meet my brother’s challenge.Continue reading “Loquaciousness, Verbosity, and Siblings”
Not So Happy. . .
My nieces and nephews are an endless source of delight. . . and also ridiculously fickle water-works. Anybody who spends time with kids aged four-and-under probably knows exactly what I mean. As easily as they are delighted, they are enraged and as much as they enjoy life, they also become frustrated by it on aContinue reading “Not So Happy. . .”
Family, Nutella, and Photobombs
When I last visited my brother Zachary and his wife Natalie in Philadelphia, my older brother, Nathaniel, also made the trip. We went to a small Italian grocery store. We took this picture, although I didn’t know what faces were being made behind me at the time it was taken: The next weekend, after I’dContinue reading “Family, Nutella, and Photobombs”
How I Wound Up Training for The Broad Street Run
I am not a runner. Not naturally, not even a little bit. I used to make myself run sometimes back in high school . . . I think I even ran a few miles once or twice. I hated it. Let’s just say I’ve always been one of those people that was never very likely toContinue reading “How I Wound Up Training for The Broad Street Run”
Sick of the Frozen Hype? GIVE UP!
Okay, if you are tired of people endlessly talking about how much they love Frozen and posting videos and comments about it . . . well, I’m sorry. You should probably not read on. Because the longer we obsessed creative fans have ahold on something, the more incredible the results, and the more inspired IContinue reading “Sick of the Frozen Hype? GIVE UP!”
Yoo-Hoo!
You know that Scene from Frozen . . . The Yoo-Hoo scene??? You know the one I mean? WELL, my darling baby nephew knows the one I mean. Check out the ADORABLENESS:
Weather for the Win
This weather man has an incredible way of presenting the weather. It is the absolute best thing I’ve ever seen on any news station ever. And the only reason I would ever consider moving to Cincinnati.
Divergent & Detergent ~ Unexpected Parallel Universes
via Lots of people have now read Veronica Roth‘s rapidly circulating trio of novels: The Divergent Series. They are a gripping trilogy that follow in the footsteps of The Hunger Games Trilogy (by Suzanne Collins) as worldwide bestsellers in the realm of Young Adult Fiction. Like Collins’ trilogy, I’ve heard a lot of people poo-poo-ingContinue reading “Divergent & Detergent ~ Unexpected Parallel Universes”
Cakey Hankerson: Great Adventures 