I set up a new blog today. A girl can never have too many blogs. This one is called Journally Imagery, and it’s a photoblog of only things I want to share with students as writing prompts. I used Posterous for this rather than WordPress because I need this blog to operate the quick and [...]

I don’t like making resolutions in January because my life is not my own that time of year. I belong to a job from August to May. January doesn’t even feel like the start of a new year. It’s just a continuation of the current school year. May is when I actually have a slim [...]

I have eight more days of elevated stress levels as I work through my end-of-year grading marathon. Students of course are emailing and calling to ask about grades. They don’t know that I have to choose between answering their questions about when things will be grading and actually doing the grading. One day I will [...]

Don’t put more than 10 items on a to-do list.  Preferably, restrict your list to five or six accomplishable tasks. Remember the Queen in Through the Looking Glass who tells Alice that she sometimes believes in six impossible things before breakfast?  That’s a fantastic way to live.  I believe in impossible things all day every [...]

Maybe I should do this every week, but I won’t because it would be too depressing.   I want to remind myself that there’s no rest for the wicked right now, though, so here’s an analysis of my goals and outcomes for the week. 1.  Catch up on grading.  Fail. 2. Achieve inbox zero.  Fail. 3. [...]