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Winnemucca burned
Not down to the ground
which would have made me clean
Winnemucca burned
in fits and starts
never a column of smoke
-too Greek
Winnemucca burned
but it never once
though it intended
(every sooty step of the way)
burned me
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Whiskey on a Friday Night In Cheyenne
I got schnockered on Black Label Whiskey last Friday night. Difficult to tell how much of an ass I was. My dad said liquor doesn't make you say anything you weren't already thinking. This is true. I haven't been schnockered in...a decade? That sounds right. I think my favorite bit of conversation was with a girl I had just met, M. who grew up in Cheyenne. I was telling her about yoga class at the Unitarian church and how to get there when she said that it was the old Mormon church that she had attended as a child. We talked about how funny it was to see this very proper and conservative church transformed into this gay friendly, Wicca- bedazzled new kind of church, at least that was my friend S.'s experience of it. S. had attended the Mormon church as a kid, also. Oh yeah, I remember her, M. said, didn't she get pregnant at like, 16? Yeah, I said, by her LDS Sunday school teacher. As a sidenote both M and I were pretty well drunk by this time. At least I was. I hope she was because the next thing she said was, Ohmygod, I totally remember him! (clutches heart) He was so hot!
That's the funniest thing anyone has said to me in a long time.
It's a funny thing about hanging out with new good folks, whose company you enjoy. It makes me miss all of my old friends almost painfully. Hough would have had a good time there. Jyn and I would have spoken fake German. Michael J would have had that pretty lawyer rethinking moving to Vegas. And so on.
This galvanizes my South Side Cheyenne Renewal Project. Houses are selling over here for 60, 70, thousand dollars. We have acces to a coffeeshop for readings, trains for dreaming and eventually, each other for company. C'mon people.
That's the funniest thing anyone has said to me in a long time.
It's a funny thing about hanging out with new good folks, whose company you enjoy. It makes me miss all of my old friends almost painfully. Hough would have had a good time there. Jyn and I would have spoken fake German. Michael J would have had that pretty lawyer rethinking moving to Vegas. And so on.
This galvanizes my South Side Cheyenne Renewal Project. Houses are selling over here for 60, 70, thousand dollars. We have acces to a coffeeshop for readings, trains for dreaming and eventually, each other for company. C'mon people.
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Sunday, June 04, 2006
Sunday In Cheyenne
I wrote this some months ago. Maybe February? I am reposting it now as a siren call to Toast. Yes, I could pick up the phone and call him in New Orleans. I find this much more interesting though; picking up the phone would be giving up. And then the terrorists will have won.
This is what Sunday looks like in Cheyenne. Olivia (dog) and Artemis (cat) jump into bed with Jason (husband) and me right around the time the alarm goes off and a woman named Portia does very well on the NPR morning quiz show. The dog and cat do what my friend Chris Sullivan calls a" Singapore back room honky tonk miscegenation freak show." Here, we just call it love. They lick one another and invariably Ollie fits her mouth over Arti's whole head and gives it a gentle shake. Arti kisses Ollie back as soon as he works his head free. Ashton pads in and makes a place for himself on the floor because at 13, he no longer fits in the double size bed we sleep in. Why not get a bigger bed? I love to have Jason so close to me, that's why. Art jumps down and tries to convince Ashton to get up and provide him with salmon, which he does. The salmon is not my idea. Jas and Ash insist. We have mice in the basement and I'm always trying to cut back on Arti's food so he will go after the mice. I have given up on that scheme because Artemis shows his displeasure in a particularly aggresive way: he kills squirrels, brings them into the guest room and disembowels them on the rug. It is subtle but effective. Even with a tinkly bell on, he has killed 4 squirrels in the last month and a half. I get up and slip some shoes on, take Ollie with me over the viaduct to work, say hello to the trains and feed my barm. When we get home Ollie patrols the yard, which she believes is her job, and a very serious one. I make a fool of myself in the front yard, trying to show Ollie how to pick up the paper by crouching on all fours and picking the paper up with my teeth. Olivia ignores me and I think that perhaps the Sunday NY Times is a bad place to begin. Maybe I could start with a small section and then work our way up? It's worth a try. I put the water on for coffee, Jas is in the shower, Ash is on the couch reading The Adventures of Marlys. The big treat of the morning is admiring again, the settee. I worked all day yesterday at my girlfriends home decor shop, Salt. Directly after work I took my friends John and Jane out to see Brokeback Mountain. They ranch outside Cheyenne on one of Wyomings oldest ranches. John is a good old boy and a lovely man. Last week I disguised my voice and called his house telling him he'd won the take-a-rancher-to-Brokeback-sweepstakes, was he interested in taking "the great leap forward?" "no, ma'am, I'm sure not." Jane convinced him otherwise and I snuck us in some beer. After the show we came back to our house for dark chocolate and tea. And darn it if Jason Thomas hadn't, in one afternoon, built me a brand new settee in the bay window, the way I'd always wanted. So as soon as I finish writing this I'll eat my toast Jas made on my Sourdough Wheat Walnut with cranberries bread, read my paper and write out recipes for the class I'm teaching over in Laramie this afternoon on Sourdough. Sunday mornings are just fine in Cheyenne. If I ever say different remind me that I'm just being greedy.
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Saturday, May 27, 2006
Oh toast. What does it mean that all of your links are "broken"? Or are they just...broken? No pictures of River? Does that seem right to you? Maybe it is time you took a little trip home. Here are things we could do: eat bread, make bread, sell bread, write poetry, read poetry and not least win at poetry! You can also work on our rancher friend John's Republican bid for the Wyoming Senate . And eat bread. Bread that has been delicately heated. Toast.
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Sunday, July 8, 2018
Book Review: Finding the Love of Jesus from Genesis to Revelation by Fitzpatrick
Posted by ~Ang at 2:17 PM 0 comments
It's important to realize that the story of the Bible is an overarching love story about Jesus and His bride. This book helps explain that concept. It does that by doing an overview of the entire Bible that helps the reader connect how the entire Bible is really about Jesus. It helps you practically see this then gives you helps to practice doing that yourself. It has a little study section after each chapter/section. This is helpful and would make it perfect to study with a group.
I found the book interesting to read and helpful in aiding careful study of the Bible.
I received a free copy of this book from Bethany publishers for the purpose of an honest review.
You can get a copy of this book from Amazon.com here.
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Book Review: Redeeming Money by Tripp
Posted by ~Ang at 10:52 PM 0 comments
This was a great book. I am in the process of freeing our family of debt, however, this book helped me to have the proper mindset of not only being debt free but the true heart behind it. Everything we do in life is about how we worship Jesus--even how we spend our money. I could see how we did make mistakes with money due to some of the issues listed. It has been an educational and liberating read.
If you desire to worship Christ with your whole heart, this book is helpful in considering the area of money. I thought maybe it would be some sort of budget help but instead it was so much more. Everything we do comes from our heart. This book will help you look biblically at your heart and help you to see money in a healthy way.
I am hopeful for the changes this book will make in my life. It is worth the time to read. We all need to look at our views on money. It is part of survival in this world. How we view things helps how we live. Study this book with friends or yourself. Either way it is a needed book for our times.
I received a copy of this book at no charge from Crossway for the purpose of an honest review.
You can get a copy of this book from Amazon.com here.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Book Review: The Gospel Comes with a House Key by Butterfield
Posted by ~Ang at 2:26 PM 0 comments
This book is a must read for all Christians. I found it extremely challenging at times but those which are the most challenging are how we know the best books because they affect long lasting change. The lasting change that is necessary for the sake of the glory of the gospel and Christ-likeness.
I am not naturally skilled in the art of hospitality but this book encouraged me to practice it anyway. It is mostly about welcoming those in (which I am good at). It is not about what you have or how fancy your home is. Of course it does require sacrifice to share your space, time and food but God provides in how you chose to honor Him in these things.
I was also happy to see that in the end of this book there were some practical tips available to those just starting out. It also stressed how everyone's practice of hospitality will look different depending on your family dynamic and constraints.
This book challenges your thoughts of hospitality even farther making you question, who would I allow into my home? What efforts do I make to really know my neighbors? Do I pursue them and offer the light of the gospel? It is thought-provoking and one book I would put on my must read list. You will grow from it as the Holy Spirit works in your heart.
I received a free copy of this book for the purpose of an honest review from the publisher, Crossway.
You can get a copy from Amazon.com here.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Book Review: God's Grace in your Suffering by Powlison
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The first class I took included singing a hymn before each session. I was confused and curious as to why this was such an important part to the counseling process. Powlison taught me the importance of hymns based on scripture. Music is healing. It teaches us and helps us grow in our walks with the Lord.
This book focuses on stanzas from How Firm a Foundation. It also looks at scripture, how to apply it personally, and personal stories of suffering.
It is a helpful resource and worth your time.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher for the purpose of an honest review.
You can get a copy of this book from Amazon.com here.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
I'm Wonderfully Made, My Soul Knows That Well -- Or Does it?
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For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,the days that were formed for me,when as yet there was none of them. ~Psalm 139:13-16
I read an article yesterday that made me cry for a little bit. Researchers from around the globe have found some potential reasons for autism. They studied brains of people with autism and found a common factor.
The part that made me sad was a theory. The theory states that "if a mother is pregnant and during pregnancy she has a bacteria or virus, it activates something bad in the fetus's immune response, in particular impacting the brain in negative ways causing inflammation." You can read the entire article here. It is very interesting and there are things at the end stating that you can do some things to help reduce inflammation and eliminate toxins. Some things we've tried off and on.
The reason I was sad was because it felt like it was my fault that my daughter has autism. During pregnancy I did have an active Lyme infection of which I was unaware. The study indications make sense.
Yet, many people get tick bites everyday and it is more rare to get an infection from Lyme bacteria that you cannot fight off than we think. We camped all over the country as a family on a regular basis. All of us had ticks attached from our times in the woods. Yet I was the only one to get sick. Prior to this I also caught mono as a child. All of it goes together weakening an immune system. The immune system that God knit together perfectly and wonderfully while I was in my mother's womb.
Some people just have the right combination of bad events or biological make up in their life that will cause these horrible lasting effects. I was one of those and it effects everything. Daily life, choices, doctor visits, etc.
My husband was gracious, he says that our daughter is more like him so it was probably part of his genes. And he is right, they are so similar that it is scary! However, I find no defect with either of them. I just watch all the difficulties my daughter has with life. These difficulties are ones she would never chose to change. I love her for that but it is difficult to watch her struggle none-the-less.
When we start to question why we are made the way we are whether it be a weird quirk, a crooked nose, or predisposition to a certain disease or disability, we must remind ourselves of the truth above.
We were not only woven together but intricately woven (like embroidery) by a loving Father who is intentional with design.
We were made fearfully-indicating with reverence or awe
and wonderfully-meaning marvelous and set apart.
God calls this work marvelous (the making of us) and the Psalmist is recognizing He knows this in the pit of his gut very well.
God even knew the days that were formed for me and you, every one of them! This is the same God who knows every hair on our head. As we age or disease and a hair falls, he knows it! He is attentive in His care.
Knowing that Christ-likeness is the goal, I can trust that though I am limited and my daughter is limited, no matter how it happened, we can trust that God knit us together perfectly, every cell, every minor detail, the exact way that He desired creating an amazing creation of art. Art that only He can perfectly create. Knowing our days and what would best draw us to Him, He made us. He uses every bit of every weakness to keep us close to Him.
Weakness is where the real power resides you know. It is a holy thing to watch God work and overcome in an area you know you were clearly incapable of. It is beautiful and humbling to see God's power move on your behalf. He sees us as perfect, though the world we live in is fallen, disease resides now, bodies are slowly decaying, brains are breaking down, but it is not something that has caught God off guard. No, He is using every bit of it to make us more like Him. As we look to Him we are transformed more and more into His image. We reflect Him in those ways. Typically it is weakness that drives us to Him.
So, I grieved, wiped my face (remembering, Our gracious Father doesn't even let our tears go to waste for He collects those too), cried out to Him and resolved to praise Him for fearfully and wonderfully making me exactly the way I am and exactly as He made my daughter. It is good because He is good.
One day we will live without the boundaries of diseased bodies, I am looking forward to that day! And the beauty of disease is it keeps me focused there, longing, hoping, praying for Christ's return. So, don't let your limitations hold you back, look to Christ. Cry out to Him. It is in this weakness that His power shines most brightly through.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Finally Posting as a Free Person
Posted by ~Ang at 12:47 PM 0 comments
Fear is a funny thing. It has kept me from writing so often.
I fear writing my thoughts. Though they are valid and mine, I fear sharing because I fear what others will think of them. Will you approve of me? Will you hate me if we disagree?
But the truth is, my thoughts are just that, my thoughts. Random thoughts, in fact, on life and God. God cannot be separated from from my thoughts. Nor do I think they should be torn apart--it's how I think. And that's okay. My thoughts and your thoughts do not have to be the same.
My journey is different from yours. So my ways of doing life does not have to be yours. Let's not read too deeply into them, okay?
Now with that said, I welcome you here. Jump in and let's journey together. I want to hear you. So feel free to interact. Just enter into the conversation. It will be fun. I miss the blogging days of old when we actually had a community through our comments. But then the world of Facebook kinda ruined it. And at first we thought it would be even better, more intimate. But it has proven false. I think it has been easier to scroll and like. Forgetting what rich community we had. But we got sucked in anyway.
Ok, so with that said, I'll just share what is not on Facebook. On Facebook you see my family smiling and having a super good time because I post those pics. But those are not the true reality. We have a hard time getting along, actually. It takes a lot of death to self. In fact, I couldn't even convince one child to get a picture with me and Beauty and the Beast--my all time heroes. So I almost ended up doing it myself which is awkward. But getting along takes true work. We fight for it.
We have chronic pain, adhd, brain injury, autism, anxiety and random personality quirks working together. We really annoy one another. In fact, I don't think that there is a time where there isn't some sort of fight that breaks out. Facebook doesn't depict this. Instead it shows our perfect fake life.
I get weary of it more than not--doing family life. I want to throw in the towel. Yet, God is the one who set the example of dying to self, even to the point of death on a cross. So could it be that my family is the best possible family for me because it has that effect every day? Do the pictures depict that? Nope. Not one bit. But here is the truth. And if you are honest, your family is not perfect either. You probably struggle just as I do but guess what, we have hope in Christ. That in doing life together, we will be forced to look to Him, even in desperation, and as we behold Him we are told we are transformed more into His image! How amazing is that?
So I'm really sorry if you have the perfect family, one that doesn't push you to the point of desperation and an outcry to Christ. If this is you, you are just on a completely different journey than mine and it doesn't make you better or worst. I just don't understand your life. So don't run, share. I can learn from you as well. And I'm guessing if you are here reading and thinking about how you cannot relate to me then you are a person with a glass half full kind of personality. And that's cool. Again, I just don't understand you. But I'm willing to learn. Either way I'm thankful for what I have. Are you? I hope so because God says living in thankfulness is part of the answer of living in good mental health. And boy do I need help there! :)
Maybe you do too. So stick around, comment, join in the journey. Let's do life together. And consider how we can encourage one another. Because that's as honest as it can get.
Yet, don't get me wrong, even though we really annoy one another as a family, we probably fiercely love one another even more deeply. Now isn't that crazy? I suppose it is because we are learning the art of repentance, forgiveness and humility. And these things are beautiful in a family. More beautiful than the "picture-perfect" life.
So stop buying into the lie of that picture perfect life. It really doesn't exist here and now. And that's okay. We are journeying home and the situations we are in are the best possible situations to teach us Christ-likeness and draw us to Christ and isn't that the most important God-given gift for this world? Isn't that great?! I think so.
Friday, March 16, 2018
Guest Post: Rebekah Hargraves and The Mommy Wars
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I am honored to feature a guest post by my friend, Rebekah Hargraves. She is a woman who exudes Jesus to the core of her being. She is someone who daily inspires me to follow Jesus harder because of her example. She was so kind to feature me on her podcast and blog before as well so it is about time I get my act together and introduce you to her! I know you will really enjoy getting to know her. Check her out more after this post. You will not be sorry you did! I have posted links below so you can find her. Listen to her podcast, super encouraging as well. She has an inspiring book for moms that I believe will be helpful for their walks with the Lord. I posted a review here.
This post is about something that we are both passionate about. Read it and let us know your thoughts on "The Mommy Wars". Have you struggled with this? How have you responded? What is your experience?
Here is Rebekah:
Seeing Other Moms as Image Bearers of God
(And Thereby Ending the Mommy Wars!)
As many of us have become all too familiar with, the mommy wars have infiltrated the church and begun to wreak havoc in countless ways, not the least of which being how we view our fellow mamas. Backbiting, name-calling, heated disagreements, unsolicited advice, know-it-all attitudes, and (at the very least!) a practice of inwardly looking down our noses at each other in judgmental ways have all become commonplace at times, even in the church. I've had friends leave churches because of these issues, mamas be told they aren't Christians as a result of their specific parenting choices, and seen friendships be stunted as a result. It's ridiculous, and it needs to stop. But what is the answer? How do we stop basing our opinion of what a "good" mom is on our own xyz expectations of what a mom should and should not do? The answer lies in the "Book of Beginnings" itself, Genesis.
Made in the Image of God
Genesis 1:26, 27 makes it clear in no uncertain terms that God chose to, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; .... So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." This identity of being an image bearer of God extends to all people everywhere - regardless of background, age, ethnicity, belief system, lifestyle, personality, practice, or gender. All men and all women are image bearers of God. What this means then, is that they are worthy of respect and honor precisely because they have been made in His image. You don't have to agree with them, you don't have to approve of their lifestyle, you don't have to pattern your parenting choices after theirs, but you do have to honor and respect them. This is a non-negotiable practice for the child of God.
What Should This Look Like?
In light of this true identity of everyone as being made in the image of God, how are we to treat one another then? How should we be treating our fellow mamas? Here are a few passages to get us started:
"Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;" ~Romans 12:10
"Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others." ~Philippians 2:3-4
"But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth." ~Colossians 3:8
"I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." ~Ephesians 4:1-3
"But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there." ~James 3:14-16
"Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another." ~Galatians 5:26
This is what a Christian mama should look like; this is how she should act. And this is precisely why the blight that is the mommy wars has no place whatsoever in the church.
Why is This Christ-Like Behavior So Important?
The Word says that what is at stake here is our ambassadorship of Christ and whether or not we are having and then reflecting the same mind that Christ had (see the rest of Philippians 2), whether or not we will reveal with our lives the way in which we are putting on the new man and living like Christ in us (see the rest of Colossians 3), whether or not we will preach the truth with our lives that "There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all." (Ephesians 4:4-6). What is at stake is our ability to testify to the redeeming, sanctifying work of God in our hearts, for Christ said in John 13:34-35, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
Look to Christ!
Sometimes it feels so hard to treat others the way we would want to be treated, especially when we really disagree with the choices they are making. But the truth of the matter is that our calling as children of God is to treat fellow image bearers (that's everyone!) with the kind of respect, honor, love, and kindness that being made in God's image deserves. If you feel like you couldn't possibly love the fellow mama at your co-op, church, MOPS group, etc., then it is of utmost importance that you don't fix your eyes on that mama, but rather on Christ Himself. Be ever mindful of what Christ did for you and how He treated you when you were far less than lovable. Remember how He poured out His life for you when you were still in your trespasses and sins. Ponder on all you have been forgiven of. That is the key. In order to esteem others more highly than you do yourself, in order to stop the mommy wars mentality that resides in your heart, you are going to have to keep your eyes on Christ and love others through the love, hope, and strength you have been given by Him. There is hope, mama! Look to Christ, and be encouraged by all He will do in and through you.
~~~ Bio: Rebekah Hargraves is a wife, mama of two littles, blogger, podcaster, and author whose passion is to edify, equip, and encourage women in their journey of Biblical womanhood, particularly with an emphasis on the gospel and its implications for everyday life. Rebekah's first book, "Lies Moms Believe (And How the Gospel Refutes Them)" released last fall, and the "Lies Moms Believe" Companion Bible Study comes out March 30, 2018. You can find Rebekah on her website, Hargraves Home and Hearth, on Instagram, or on iTunes via her podcast.
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10.5.15 Higher Ed Weekly Read: Articles Worth Reviewing
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Here are some industry articles that caught our eye recently.
More Than a Postdoc. "The program gives recent graduates increasingly valuable teaching experience to take out onto the job market. Preceptors also play a role in the university's newly revised general education program, which includes seminars required of all first-year students, since these are the courses the fellows tend to design and teach."
Rethinking State Support for Higher Ed. "Improving the sufficiency and fairness of state allocations for higher education will require shedding more light on within-state funding distributions. It also will also demand a more careful accounting of the real costs — not just how much is spent — associated with educating different groups of students at the postsecondary level. Such data are currently nearly impossible to come by, but they must be collected."
Small Loans, Big Problem. "(1) Students who borrow the least are the most likely to default. A growing body of research has found that student loan defaults are concentrated among the millions of students who never earned a degree. Graduates who borrow the most tend to earn the most. But those who take on even a small amount of debt with nothing to show for it face a relatively high risk of defaulting."
Measuring Motivation. "Like most colleges, the University of New Mexico is trying to help more of its at-risk students get to graduation. And officials at the university know academic preparation isn't the only factor to watch. There is a broad consensus that so-called noncognitive skills — motivation, stress management, organization and even the ability to cope with financial pressure — influence whether a student succeeds in college. So the university recently started using a test from the Educational Testing Service, dubbed SuccessNavigator, to measure those attributes."
Discussing the "Revolution in Higher Education." "DeMillo's methodology is to talk to the educators who are challenging the dominant scarcity narrative in higher education, and then to place those conversations within the historical context that colleges and universities operate. Along the way we learn a great deal about accreditation, the challenges faced by HBCU's, and the potential of adaptive learning platforms paired with competency based degree models to challenge long-held postsecondary practices."
Why "Skin in the Game" Doesn't Make Sense. "In other words, if students complete more than fifteen credits and use IBR, the default issue shrinks to an easily manageable level. Alternately, one could say that the student loan default problem is not a cost problem at all. It's a completion problem, and/or an information problem (ignorance of IBR)."
Reimagining the U.S. High School: An Open Letter to Laurene Powell Jobs. "In all of those previous reforms, fundamental questions divided those seeking major changes in the comprehensive high school then and now. *What should students learn? *Should all students learn the same thing? *how should students best learn? *Who should decide answers to these questions? Every attempt to "transform" the comprehensive high school since the 1920s wrestled with these questions. Each generation of reformers came up with answers only to see that a subsequent generation of reformers supplied different answers to the same questions."
Just Half of Graduates Say Their College Education Was Worth the Cost. "The overall results did not differ widely depending on the kind of institution attended — except when it came to alumni of for-profit colleges. Only 26 percent of those alumni strongly agreed that their postsecondary education was worth the cost. And 13 percent strongly disagreed that it was worth it, a proportion that was notably higher than the national average of 4 percent."
The Gravest Threat to Colleges Comes From Within. "Colleges face criticism from students and others uncomfortable with the points of view expressed in the classroom and by individual faculty members. Provocative art, revealing films, graphic literary portrayals, and controversial speech are understandably uncomfortable for those who find such work contrary to their beliefs. Yet it is this type of work — controversial at times — that has enlightened the world."
10 Reasons Why Internal Campus Communications Are So Difficult. "#3. Our E-Mails Are Too Long and Sub-Optimally Designed: E-mail is a problematic communications medium in even the best of circumstances. Unfortunately, we don't know how to use e-mail effectively. There seems to be both an art and a science to writing persuasive e-mails, e-mails that break through the information clutter. We are, however, largely ignorant of these effective e-mail techniques. In theory, we get the need to write a persuasive subject line. To keep e-mails short and punchy, with the key information at the start of the message. Why is it so hard to turn e-mail theory into e-mail practice?"
When A.S. + A.A. > B.A. "And there are a number of reasons why students would want to pursue both degrees at the same time. One reason would be to enhance their transfer ability if they're thinking about pursuing a similar bachelor's degree, he said. … Another reason students may pursue both degrees is because they may make them more employable, Shugart said."
When Schools Overlook Introverts. "The way in which certain instructional trends—education buzzwords like 'collaborative learning' and 'project-based learning' and 'flipped classrooms'—are applied often neglect the needs of introverts. In fact, these trends could mean that classroom environments that embrace extroverted behavior—through dynamic and social learning activities—are being promoted now more than ever. These can be appealing qualities in the classroom, of course, but overemphasizing them can undermine the learning of students who are inward-thinking and easily drained by constant interactions with others."
Nearly a Third of Undergraduate Degrees Go to Students With Prior Credentials. "For a growing share of college graduates, the degrees they're taking home aren't their first higher-education credentials. The percentage of college graduates stacking credentials by adding, say, a bachelor's degree to an associate degree, or an associate degree to a certificate, grew from 25 percent to 29 percent between 2010-11 and 2013-14, says a report released on Wednesday."
How Houston ISD Is Winning By Insisting That Its Data Systems Truly Work Together. "Through a 'Common Cartridge' (CC®) and 'Thin Common Cartridge' (TCC®), learning resources are ingested into the digital library of the teaching and learning platform, or TLP. A TLP is more than an LMS–a learning management system. A TLP includes Curriculum, content, and learning management systems. The learning resources are available to search by keywords or standards, and the content is divided in small units, sometimes smaller than chapters, which we call 'discrete chunks of content.'"
To Twist and Weave and Untangle. "Here's the thing about the now-deleted description: the professor was modeling the kind of discipline-specific knowledge-building activities in his "lectures." The kind that comes from a deep engagement with the materials in question, and an understanding of a way (and maybe a few ways) to communicate that knowledge and skill. The kind that comes when pedagogy and research come together. That, to me, is what a 'scholar' is. If you're not teaching, then you're just researching, and that makes you…a researcher. I used 'just' very strategically here."
Blinded by the Binary. "But it's almost irrelevant to mention the power of CBE if one doesn't, in the very same breath, talk about its limitations. And this is where Levine falls short. Indeed, he is silent. The problem of a CBE-only model is that it is solely and only concerned with exactly what can be articulated through learning objectives and competencies. And for all of the good intentions of such a model – for we all need benchmarks and a quality-control 'floor' to work from – it operationalizes a checklist-only framework of education."
Paper or Tablet? Reading Recall and Comprehension. "Uncertainties remain about the influence of digital reading for in-depth reading comprehension for adults and raise more unanswered questions about the developmental implications for children.29 The effects of reading from digital devices on children's cognitive developmental skills and literacy abilities are just beginning to emerge. Questions linger regarding the consequences of nonlinear reading on brain processing, especially adaptive shortcuts due to scrolling, scanning, and hyperlinks."
A Stalled Digital Book Revolution? "The real question we should be asking is not how much of reading is digital, but rather how much are people reading? Reading is reading. Paper, e-book, app, audiobook – it doesn't matter. Reading books is a habit, and habits must be developed. We spend so much time taking sides on the digital learning debate that we lose sight of the larger goal to encourage book reading."
Hiding from Kids and Colleagues. "In an article preceding her new book, Anne Marie Slaughter talks about toxic work environments. She raises important questions about the flexibility of work schedules, advocating for more flexible schedules, changing family structural expectations, and having the ability to work at home. In my own experience, though, while working at home brings me great flexibility in some ways, in other ways, I think I just create a different type of "toxic" home-work environment."
Reimagining the U.S. High School (Part 2). "Because so much work is involved in mobilizing support and resources for fundamental changes there is far more success in talking about major reforms than in adopting the planned changes. And there is even more of a gap between officials' actions and what principals and teachers actually put into practice. Because of these gaps between talk, action, and implementation, intended fundamental changes get incrementalized and become just another spoke in the organizational wheel."
Americans Spending More for College Out-of-Pocket. "The national study, 'How America Pays for College 2015,' from Sallie Mae and Ipsos, now in its eighth year, found that parent income and savings covered the largest share of college costs — 32 percent — surpassing scholarships and grants at 30 percent, for the first time since 2010. Families covered the balance of college costs using student borrowing, student income and savings, parent borrowing, and contributions from relatives and friends.
New Push on Bankruptcy Protections. "The administration's proposal would not ease bankruptcy discharges across the board on private student loans. Instead it would extend the enhanced borrower protections only to private student loans that don't offer flexible repayment plans like those granted to federal loan borrowers. Meanwhile, the standard for discharging student loans made by the Education Department should not be lowered, the administration said in the report."
An IDEA Colleges Should Appreciate. "Many of today's students grew up with the assumption that children with disabilities belong in the same classroom and have the same right to an education that they do. Research shows that having kids with disabilities in class teaches valuable lessons about acceptance, patience and diversity. As people with disabilities increasingly participate in the workforce, inclusive education also prepares the current generation of students for a diversity they will likely encounter in their professional lives."
Insider / Outsider MOOC Divide. "What is fascinating is how little common understand is shared by MOOC insiders and outsiders. Almost none of the values, assumptions, and experiences of the MOOC insider community has crossed-over to those outside of this group. If anything, positions have hardened. Productive conversation is difficult as the experiences, networks, and even world views of MOOC insiders and outsiders have continued to diverge."


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Sharlene Oong Student Writer Motivation is definitely a done deal when others assure you that you are capable of succeeding. This was certainly the case for freshman marketing major, Jason Polansky. Before coming to Messiah, Polansky received certification from the National Blindness Professional Board at the age of eighteen, making him …
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"We ran into 10 or 12 just coming here, and you can't avoid them because there is a lot of traffic here," said Justin Floyd, a driver on Chicago's near West Side.
The Chicago Dept. of Transportation says there were 100,000 fewer potholes this year that last year because the weather was not as harsh as in previous years and because of stimulus money that was used to resurface approximately 30 miles of the busiest streets.
"Last winter, we were filling tens of thousands of potholes on the pothole-plagued streets, and we were out to those location several times. This time, we've not been out there once," said Brian Steele of the Chicago Dept. of Transportation.
Steele also said at this time year, CDOT filled more than 280,000 potholes. So far this year, they have filled more than 160,000.
"This winter, our duration time is averaging two to three days. Sometimes, it can be quicker than that. Sometimes, it might take a little longer, especially if it's on a residential street. Our primary focus is on arterial streets," said Steele.
According to Steele, workers are out seven days a week filling and repairing potholes. Friday morning, workers were busy attacking the pothole problem in the 2100-block of West Cortez.
"We haven't heard about a lot of complaints. I am certain there are some out there, but because we are seeing far fewer potholes, and because we are able to get to them more quickly, the complaints seem to be down this winter," Steele said.
"I think there is a huge problem in the way they fix, and they'll fix again next year. The way they fix, they always put the pavement into the hole filled with water and [it] never bonds with the surface, and this way, they have the job again next year," said concerned resident Dan Kordula.
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My 3 year old Dell monitor goes blank after the computer has been on for awhile. The green light is still on. Moving the mouse, clicking enter, tapping the space-bar do not make the screen come back. Sometimes if I power off the whole computer and turn it back on, the screen will come back. Uninstalled and re-installed the video drivers, replaced the cord between the monitor and tower.... now what? Hopefull I'll get an answer before the screen goes black again!!! Eeek!
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Multi-cornered fight in two constituencies (Poll Curtainraiser - Tripura)April 22nd, 2009 - 12:35 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, April 22 (IANS) Tripura is all set to witness a multi-cornered electoral battle Thursday with 19 candidates, including a woman, from various political parties in the fray for the two parliamentary seats from the northeastern state.
Despite a seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress has also fielded candidates for the two seats from Tripura.
"Congress leaders in Tripura ignored our party and that's why with the approval of our party chief Mamata Banerjee we have fielded candidates in the two parliamentary constituencies," said Dulal Das, the Trinamool Congress state president.
"Due to the Congress' attitude, the non-Left votes would divide and the ruling Left Front candidates will get the benefit in the polls," Das told journalists.
State Trinamool Congress chairman and senior lawyer Arun Chandra Bhowmik is contesting from the Tripura West Lok Sabha constituency while party vice-president Rita Rani Debbarma has been fielded for the Tripura East seat (reserved for the Scheduled Tribes).
The ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have re-nominated their respective 2004 Lok Sabha candidates for the two seats.
Sitting MPs Khagen Das and Bajuban Reang, both CPI-M central committee members who won in 2004, will again contest from West Tripura and East Tripura respectively.
Tripura BJP president Nilmani Deb will contest from West Tripura while the party's veteran tribal leader, Pulin Behari Dewan, will be the candidate in East Tripura.
The BJP has struck an alliance with a tribal-based party, Nationalist Council of Tripura (NCT).
The NCT had partnered with the Congress in last year's assembly polls.
Another tribal-based party, Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT), and the Party for Democratic Socialism (PDS), a local party formed by breakaway leaders of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), have announced their support to the Congress.
Sportsman-turned-politician Bajuban Reang has been elected to the lower house of parliament from Tripura East as many as six times since 1980 while his party colleague Khagen Das won the Tripura West seat in the 2002 byelection and the 2004 polls.
Reang is the second tribal leader in the northeastern region after former Lok Sabha speaker P.A. Sangma who was elected to the Lok Sabha so many times.
Sangma won the Tura Lok Sabha seat from Meghalaya as many as eight times.
Over 2.08 million voters, including 1.01 million women, are eligible to exercise their franchise in Thursday's polls, which will be held amid tight security.
Patrolling was further intensified along Tripura's 856-km-long border with Bangladesh by the Border Security Force (BSF) while central paramilitary troopers and state security forces fanned out to sensitive and terrorist-prone areas to keep a close eye on the situation.
"Over 80 companies of central paramilitary forces have been deployed to conduct the elections in a free and fair manner," said Tripura chief electoral officer Sanjeev Ranjan.
- After songs, plays, rallies galore, campaigning ends in Tripura - Apr 21, 2009
- Trinamool to fight against Congress in Tripura - Mar 17, 2009
- Trinamool, Congress fight separately in Tripura - Mar 11, 2009
- Tripura Left Front announces candidates for polls - Mar 03, 2009
- Trinamool Congress, Congress no deal in Tripura polls - Apr 14, 2010
- Trinamool Congress to fight it out alone in Tripura - Mar 25, 2009
- Heavy turnout, peaceful Lok Sabha polls in Tripura (Lead) - Apr 23, 2009
- Congress continues to lead in northeast (Lead) - May 16, 2009
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
My Maternal Grandparents
This weeks challenge at Jessica's....use a black and white photo....just what i needed to continue with my heritage album (think it will take me years...but this is fun)....Will do a second page with the history i know about them....(now that i have collected this information from my mother and aunt)...i really stress that you all should start collecting your history even if you don't scrap...important to hand down to the next generation......well, need to keep this short...we are under a severe thunderstorm watch so i think i will turn the computer off.....
Posted by Dawn at 1:37 PM
2 comments:
- Donna S. said...
excellent heritage LO!
The paper looks perfect for the picture.
- May 27, 2008 at 8:39 PM
- Jackie said...
Ok...I am just catching up...once again I LOVE the color that you used with the black and white photo
- June 11, 2008 at 6:43 PM
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This made me laugh…. I feel your pain as when my boys (twins) were young I had a double pusher…. some people are totally oblivious to the world around them!
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It is easy to forget the difficulties of being a hobbit in 'Lord of the Rings' until you have to go shopping in a wheelchair and you are the same height as one.
Shopping whether i buy anything or not is something i love to do, but it can be frustrating and i have to be in a tiptop frame off mind or it can go sour pretty quick.
Unfortunately my favourite shops are usually the ones that have just enough space to navigate round in a wheelchair, with only a gnats cock of room either side. You know the shops i mean that sell artisan products, incense, candles and items that i can easily brake with one wrong move.
But i find even more shops are doing the, cram in as much shit as possible, put random shelves in the middle of aisles with BOGOF lip salves in, it is not cool if i wanted to do an obstacle course, i'd plan a trip to the beach!. There bloody irritating and not just for wheelchair users, but the ever expanding pushchair must struggle.
If this is not annoying enough, there is the 'doorway conversationalist', you know the ones that stand in the entrance to a shop usually inbetween the age of 55 – 110, oblivious to anyone else around. These are the old ladies that i end up getting shitty with. Now I have moral's, i use my p's and q's when needed, but how many times do i need to say excuse me! On more than one occasion i have asked 3 times before i then combust in a loud, aggressive tone because someone has acknowledged i am waiting and still continues to talk about Ethels' hemorrhoids. Move it or lose it old lady!
Last week i ended up with a middle aged man sitting on my lap and no I'm not exaggerating, because my daughter said 'Was that man trying to kiss you?'. We were at a car meet, gazing at some classic vehicles and i was just about to take a photo of a pristine classic ford escort, when 'OUCH' some old dude falls into my lap and fumbles about, looking a bit perplexed. He then took far too long to get the fuck off me!. He may off not understood how it happened but i do, he was walking backwards not paying any attention to his surroundings. My reaction was 'Well I'm not invisible' and not one apology from the backwards man, what an arse!
I don't presume the world owes me a favour, but surely it is not much to ask that you show some common courtesy, look below eye level once in a while, do not cram your shops so full that i end up with underwear attached to my chair and walk the way your eyes are facing!
All in all access for the disabled, aren't that bad but they could be bloody better as well.
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