Seattle plans are coming along, but I’m just a few small steps from a total meltdown. There’s just something about having to tie up all of my loose ends in the Valley in only a month’s time, and not really being able to do anything early because I have to live and teach here until […]
My birthday was on Tuesday. I am officially on my way out of my twenties. But it’s not all bad news; my team leader surprised me with some cookies (including an almost-too-cute-to-eat gingerbread man), a student gave me a cupcake, and another student wrote me a really nice letter saying I’m her favorite teacher ever. […]
Inspired by Justin Baeder’s Creative Businesses in the Hood, I’m giving you all a shiny post about weird things in the Valley (El Valle de Locura, the Narcissist would say.) On Saturday morning, I grabbed my camera to take some long awaited pictures of creative Valley businesses, and along the way I found some Valley […]
If Coldplay could rap…
This is a daily update kind of post for yesterday and today. My students have been TAKS testing this Tuesday and Wednesday, so I say “Hasta la Thursday”. I can’t wait for Thursday and the return of manipulatives (”Shiny blocks of learning” for those of you who don’t speak math teacher.) I could almost pity […]
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. Yesterday was Easter Sunday, and I attended a lovely service at St. Pius the Tenth Catholic Church in Weslaco. That church is the most joyful church I have ever visited, Catholic or Protestant, bar none. There’s just something about the people that worship there. They manage […]
Go to dark Gethsemane, ye that feel the tempter’s power;
Your Redeemer’s conflict see, watch with Him one bitter hour,
Turn not from His griefs away; learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
See Him at the judgment hall, beaten, bound, reviled, arraigned;
O the wormwood and the gall! O the pangs His soul sustained!
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss; […]
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It’s one of those things that I’ve never understood. Why call it “Good” Friday? Good Friday wasn’t really good for anyone involved. One of the things that I like about the Catholic church’s focus on holy week (instead of just focusing on the resurrection more like a protestant church) is that it puts some things […]
Ah, holy Jesus, how hast Thou offended,
That man to judge Thee hath in hate pretended?
By foes derided, by Thine own rejected,
O most afflicted.
Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon Thee?
Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone Thee.
’Twas I, Lord, Jesus, I it was denied Thee!
I crucified Thee.
Lo, the Good Shepherd for the sheep is offered;
The […]