The month of November is ending today, so it's time to reflect on how I did with NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). I didn't...

I'm not going to lie: I enjoyed having five days off in a row. The Thanksgiving holiday, and the extra opportunity to spend time with f...

No school tomorrow. Please pray for Haiti.

Since getting home from Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, I have basically been wearing pyjamas. (I did dress briefly yesterday in honor of ...

There's nobody quite like Corrigan. Here you can read about how he risked his life to get a Thanksgiving turkey and how he believes th...

On Sunday I mentioned that we would be reading odes in eighth grade this past week . We did, and a couple of kids tried one: I got an ode t...

This is what I wrote last year about the things for which I was grateful to God. This year I could write the same list, though the order w...

My seventh graders are writing children's stories, so we've been reading picture books for a while together and talking about how th...

We sang this song in Chapel this morning. We sang this the night of the earthquake, in the chapel. We all felt we needed to get toget...

I finally finished Mockingjay this morning. I'm not sure why it took me so long. If anything, this is the fastest-paced of the three ...

We're going to look at some odes this week in eighth grade. To me this seems a great way to celebrate Thanksgiving, to read some of Pab...

Today I was playing Taboo with my English Enrichment class and a student gave this clue: "This happened in Haiti ten months ago." ...

Lately, the facts of life in Haiti - tents, storm, cholera, riots - have been extremely depressing. But there's more to life than fact...

Today we have the day off school to celebrate Vertières Day. Vertières was a decisive battle in the Haitian struggle for independence again...

I've skipped three days of posting. It's a disgrace, especially when Haiti is in the news again. And once again, not for a good r...

Photo Credit: wholefoodsmarket.com In 2008, I described eating a mango for lunch and the ensuing mess . Back in 2006, I wrote this post call...

Today marks ten months since the earthquake in Haiti. If you watch the video at this site , you can see a graphic representation of how many...

The cholera epidemic continues , and gets worse , and yet in the midst of it all there are many moments that are beautiful and filled with ...

This is a heartbreaking article.

Oh no! I just realized I didn't post at all yesterday! So much for my NaBloPoMo ambitions! Well, sorry. I was too busy reading Mock...