I'm a chick mama! Special delivery in my first grade classroom today!
There's a few more pips in the eggs, so I'm thinking we'll have some more surprise chicks tomorrow morning.
This little cutie is named Nugget.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Peep Peep!
I'm a chick mama! Special delivery in my first grade classroom today!
There's a few more pips in the eggs, so I'm thinking we'll have some more surprise chicks tomorrow morning.
This little cutie is named Nugget.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Random Acts of Kindness
Today, I had 3 people stop me on my way home from work.
One asking for a good restaurant in the area.
One asking for the way to the C train.
One asking for the way to get to the Macomb's bridge.
Either I look like a New Yorker, or people just naturally sense that I'm a nice and helpful person. Who knows something about the city.
If I keep paying it forward with kindness, will kindness and love be returned to me? I keep wondering and hoping about the great returns.
One asking for a good restaurant in the area.
One asking for the way to the C train.
One asking for the way to get to the Macomb's bridge.
Either I look like a New Yorker, or people just naturally sense that I'm a nice and helpful person. Who knows something about the city.
If I keep paying it forward with kindness, will kindness and love be returned to me? I keep wondering and hoping about the great returns.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Intelligence: Turn On or Turn Off?
Here's a confession for you, my few readers and those anonymous lurkers out there: I am a blonde, but I use my brain.
I know! Groundbreaking revelation here. I have totally broken the stereotype of dumb blondes. I love to read, have always adored school, and while I do engage in my indulgence of trashy television, movies, and magazines, I consider myself a pretty intelligent person. To add to that, I was salutatorian of my high school class, graduated summa cum laude from college, and maintained a 4.0 GPA all through grad school. And through my second masters' program.
So, why am I telling you all of this? In the past two weeks, I have received the following responses when I have mentioned something about my career or my academic past:
Response 1 (after telling individual I graduated 2nd in my high school class): Wow, I didn't realize I was in the company of such a smart girl. That's kind of intimidating.
Response 2 (after telling someone about plans I had for my literacy blocks in the next few weeks, and ideas I had for next year): Do you consider yourself a driven person?
For the second response, when I explained that, yes, I do consider myself driven in order to do my job well and best serve my students, there was no positive feedback to that response. Instead, there was just a change of subject.
I cannot believe that I am living in the year 2011 and people, specifically, men, still find intelligence in women intimidating. In addition, it seems like a demonstrated dedication to work is also abhorred. I'm going to make a general statement here, but why is it acceptable to bask in the glorious intelligence of men and their commitment to 293834975 hours a week to their job, but when I try to assert myself and my gifts, I am considered an anomaly?
I know! Groundbreaking revelation here. I have totally broken the stereotype of dumb blondes. I love to read, have always adored school, and while I do engage in my indulgence of trashy television, movies, and magazines, I consider myself a pretty intelligent person. To add to that, I was salutatorian of my high school class, graduated summa cum laude from college, and maintained a 4.0 GPA all through grad school. And through my second masters' program.
So, why am I telling you all of this? In the past two weeks, I have received the following responses when I have mentioned something about my career or my academic past:
Response 1 (after telling individual I graduated 2nd in my high school class): Wow, I didn't realize I was in the company of such a smart girl. That's kind of intimidating.
Response 2 (after telling someone about plans I had for my literacy blocks in the next few weeks, and ideas I had for next year): Do you consider yourself a driven person?
For the second response, when I explained that, yes, I do consider myself driven in order to do my job well and best serve my students, there was no positive feedback to that response. Instead, there was just a change of subject.
I cannot believe that I am living in the year 2011 and people, specifically, men, still find intelligence in women intimidating. In addition, it seems like a demonstrated dedication to work is also abhorred. I'm going to make a general statement here, but why is it acceptable to bask in the glorious intelligence of men and their commitment to 293834975 hours a week to their job, but when I try to assert myself and my gifts, I am considered an anomaly?
Thursday, April 14, 2011
One of my students' moms came up to me today to tell me about a conversation she was having with her daughter last night. The daughter tells her mom, "You know, when Ms. D looks at me, I feel good because I know she cares about me." She also went on to tell her mom how she doesn't feel so afraid to speak up in class anymore.
I love what I do.
I love what I do.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Books I Read in 2010
- 1. Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters
- 2. Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse
- 3. Happens Every Day
- 4. The Almost Moon
- 5. Bringing Home the Birkin
- 6. Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth
- 7. The Help
- 8. Lock and Key
- 9. Schooled
- 10. Belong to Me
- 11. Nanny Returns
- 12. House Rules
- 13. The Lost Symbol
- 14. The Real Real
- 15. Eat, Pray, Love
- 16. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
- 17. Olive Kitteridge
- 18. The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
- 19. Heart of the Matter
- 20. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
- 21. Twenties Girl
- 22. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- 23. My Horizontal Life: A Colletion of One Night Stands
- 24. The Girl Who Played With Fire
- 25. Fly Away Home
- 26. Never Let Me Go
- 27. L.A. Candy
- 28. Mini Shopaholic
- 29. Sweet Little Lies
- 30. Kids' Poems (Grade 1)
- 31. Commencement
- 32. When You Reach Me
Monday, January 17, 2011
New Healthy Me
I'm writing some of these things down that I am currently doing to stay healthy and fit so that they are a constant reminder for me.
1. Water, water all the time.
2. Think about planning dinner ahead of time instead of coming home, feeling lazy, and ordering in (especially when I have good food and cookbooks readily available).
3. Pack my gym bag the night before so I am not in a rush in the mornings.
4. If I can't get to the gym, get on the Wii Fit for at least 30 minutes.
5. Take the stairs more at work instead of the elevator.
On another note, my sister got engaged this past Thursday, which was great because she was planning to come to NY this weekend anyway for a family friend's baby shower. It was so nice to spend time with her, see the sparkly ring, and start some wedding talk.
1. Water, water all the time.
2. Think about planning dinner ahead of time instead of coming home, feeling lazy, and ordering in (especially when I have good food and cookbooks readily available).
3. Pack my gym bag the night before so I am not in a rush in the mornings.
4. If I can't get to the gym, get on the Wii Fit for at least 30 minutes.
5. Take the stairs more at work instead of the elevator.
On another note, my sister got engaged this past Thursday, which was great because she was planning to come to NY this weekend anyway for a family friend's baby shower. It was so nice to spend time with her, see the sparkly ring, and start some wedding talk.
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