A little late, as I was out for the count last night before the prompt was given! 🙂 This week’s Five Minute Friday prompt is: yes. GO. On instagram, author/illustrator/poet (at least  I think he’s a poet) Dallas Clayton posted this illustration: That question has been ringing in my head ever since. So, Jordan: what… Read More yes {five minute friday}
So I tried Emily’s What I Learned series last year, and I failed after 3 months. Sorry, Emily! So I decided to try again this month… if only because I learned a lot this month. I’mma do the silly stuff first cause it’s easier: 1. German Chocolate cake did NOT originate in Germany. Â Bizarre,… Read More What i Learned in August
I’ve spent the past 48 hours either: on the phone with someone from Lipscomb or  2. emailing (multiple) people from Lipscomb. basically with the goal of trying to help me figure my life out… after I thought I had it all figured out already, dangit. (thanks for that reminder, God. Just wish it was… Read More brand new.
This week’s Five Minute Friday prompt is… alone. GO. Alone with my thoughts. they suffocate and weigh me down; thoughts and desires and worst-case scenarios swirl through my head, a constant recording looped on repeat. choices engulf every inch of me physically, emotionally, spiritually. I try to make up my mind by myself, thinking only I… Read More Alone {Five Minute Friday }
It’s Five Minute Friday Time! 5 minutes, no editing, revising, or overthinking–just write! To learn more and join us yourself, check it out here: Five Minute Friday. This week’s prompt is:  Find. GO. Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you will find. Earlier this week I wrote a post about finding… Read More Find {Five Minute Friday}
To be angry is to react and to be brave is to stand and fight; therefore, your reaction has always been to run. ~Gregory, Romeo and Juliet (modern translation). I’m teaching  Romeo and Juliet right now- a play I personally can’t stand (sorry, Mrs. Scott!). I’ve never taught it before, or taught this age group… Read More finding my confidence (again).
This week’s Five Minute Friday prompt is: (kinda perfect for me right now) learn. Learning is on my mind 24/7 currently. 7 days into student teaching and I’m ready to call it quits, in a lot of ways. I’ve had a migraine that just won’t go away since Monday. Stress all week about things out… Read More Learn {Five Minute Friday}
Five Minute Friday time! 5 minutes, write what comes to mind. no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write. This week’s word is: Here. I started student teaching this week. Next week I take the PRAXIS exam I should have taken in May; as long as all goes well, I will be… Read More here {Five Minute Friday}
Five Minute Friday time! 5 minutes, write what comes to mind. no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write. This week’s FMF word: try! If you wanna give it a try (see what I did there? 😉 ) write your own post and link up here! I’m not good at trying… Read More Try (Five Minute Friday)
(written after time limit):I discovered #fiveminutefriday from friends I met doing #fmfpartysnailmail- a letter-writing group I joined after meeting the founder of said group through SheReadsTruth (so much internet it hurts). The premise: Thursday nights, you get a one word topic and 5 minutes to write. No editing or overthinking, just writing. It looked like… Read More Ten (Five Minute Friday)