Author Archives: Hannah

Back on Track.

It has been over ninety degrees for the past three days, but I still feel like the days after Labor day mark The Beginning of The End of summer. August Recess ended yesterday, the first week of classes is over, … Continue reading

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It’s Friday, and these are my feelings.

I decided that it had been all to long since I regaled you with my end of the week feelings. I’m sorry/you’re welcome. But it is Friday, Friday at the end of the first week of school, the last Friday … Continue reading

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Just a Tuesday morning at the BEACH.

Though I am sad to see summer break go, nothing compares to my total grief that August Recess ends next Tuesday. While every August Recess is wonderful, this one has been especially perfect, as we have recessed… aggressively. We made … Continue reading

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5 Things I love Today

Today marks my first day of 21st grade! I mean, I guess since I am done taking classes and am also teaching, it isn’t quite the same, but I’m still counting it. 21 long years in education. Even though I … Continue reading

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We should do this.

Sometime back in the spring, we got talking about bottomless brunch at Ambar with a group of friends. You remember the one– it’s the one that undid an entire weekend of plans with its siren song of bottomless mimosas and … Continue reading

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Mad Hatter

A couple weeks ago, I did what many of you might have done: I spent some online time doing a little shopping over at the Nordstrom Anniversary sale, where items that are typically obscenely expensive become, for a very brief … Continue reading

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Does everyone know what time it is?

…TOOL TIME! If you read the title and the above  wasn’t your response, than we obviously didn’t grow up in the same glorious 90’s world of Tim and Al. Wilson- come back and give us your unending wisdom. But in … Continue reading

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Bottle this up.

Sometimes I think it would be fun to be one of those poised bloggers, one of those well curated spaces around the internet composed entirely of muted color palettes and carefully crafted posts. Sometimes I want to aspire to that … Continue reading

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Capitol Hill Coffee.

I have a pretty great summer schedule down. Housework, exercise, home puttering, emails and photography things in the mornings, then off to a coffee shop for dissertation research or semester prep in the afternoon. This gives me a chance to … Continue reading

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What happens when we love a racist: Atticus Finch and those times when our friends are wrong.

“Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.” ―Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman  Chances are good that you have either read Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, or at least heard enough about the controversy surrounding … Continue reading

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