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Jillian Michaels and Robert Frost
Jillian Michaels may be a sadist, but at least there is poetry. Ok, I should back up. I love my colleagues. Regardless of how often I get frustrated with my students, I love the teachers and staff that I work … Continue reading
Felix
This winter is shaping up to be long, cold, and snowy. I can’t really complain because snow days have kept me from having full weeks, and I am getting very good at staying in bed and watching TV. But the … Continue reading
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Fred et Tania
Last summer I took these engagement photos for some friends in Paris. The disc got lost, and as I was working on finding a way to get the pictures to them again, I decided to share some. Portraits were so … Continue reading
Kiss the Earth
My students are currently memorizing French romantic poetry. To prepare them for this quarter, I spent a class period discussing what defines the French Romantic movement. One of my colleagues teaches English, and she has the best description to differentiate … Continue reading
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Perfection That Could Have Been, or, Team Stone Makes Macarons
In case you are new to my blogging history, I love macarons. In case you are new to macarons, please refer to the above picture of edible perfection. Is there any food more beautiful, more ready to share itself with … Continue reading
New Year’s Resolutions . . . Retroactively.
I am horrible at New Year’s resolutions. Inevitably I make it till about February first until I get sidetracked. Several years ago I realized that I was always making the same resolutions because I can never carry them through to … Continue reading
White Christmas
This year Kentucky had a white Christmas for the first time since I was in middle school. Something about snow endows Christmas with a legitimacy that is completely irrational as Christ’ birth almost certainly came with no snow in sight. … Continue reading
Bethany’s Pumpkin Muffins
Once upon a time not so very long ago, I lived in the frozen arctic tundra known as Michigan. This was not so very bad because I lived in a magical house known as The Ramp with 3 perfect roommates. … Continue reading
Grading
Over the past month, work has taken so much time that blogging has been shoved to the side. The weeks between Thanksgiving break and Christmas break passed in a whirlwind of testing, grading, and charging through lectures and notes to … Continue reading
Tomato Tart
If you can still acquire heirloom tomatoes, run out and buy a couple and come back to make this amazing roasted garlic – tomato – cheese tart. On my last journey to the farmer’s market a couple weeks ago a … Continue reading
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