I am reading a book called 13 Reasons Why (which I will post a review for in the next week or two). It is about the big/little, known/unknown things that we do/say and how they affect people, or even start a chain of events and thus impact people. The last Deeply Personal post I put […]
As I sat in front of my computer watching a movie the other night, I was a bird sitting in a tree outside someone’s window. What I mean by that is that I was witnessing (but not fully) a difficult struggle in another person’s life. It made me sad. None of the details are known […]
A great way to introduce kids to other cultures is through high quality children’s literature. From beautiful picture books, to engaging native stories, books that teach about language and culture and so much more. While your kids may not be able to physically travel to a place, engaging books can be a transportation of their […]
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This post was actually first written in my “old school”, handwritten journal that I still keep on my nightstand, and not as a post for my blog. It was written on a night, in the not so distant past, when I could not fall asleep from the speed at which my mind was racing. (In […]
September 11th, 2001 started out as any other day for most of us. Everything changed at 8:45 a.m when a hijacked passenger jet, American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. It is a day that forever changed America, and is now known as Patriot day in […]
We have all heard about the “NEW” SAT and how things have changed a bit since the last time they updated it. But what exactly does that mean and how will the new SAT essay be different? I will readily admit that one of the reasons I was so eager to make the transition from […]