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So. Many. Plans.
No matter how carefully we craft our plans, they sometimes go awry. Or there might be things beyond our control that just don’t cooperate with what we have in mind. Sometimes our carefully crafted plans have to be put on hold. Sometimes they need to be reworked or simply cancelled. Sometimes, we have to go… Read more
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Bruna, bailando por el mundo – Dancing Around the World by Evelyn Sanchez-Toledo – Book Review
Bruna, bailando por el mundo – Dancing Around the World by Evelyn Sanchez-Toledo Bruna, Bailando Por El Mundo – Dancing Around the World is a lovely picture book about Bruna, a little girl who on a rainy day is sad and bored because she can’t go outside to play. In the best tradition of how… Read more
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It’s Time for a Change
I’ve been on medical leave since June 2019 and before that I’d been on an extended sick leave. I kept stretching out my initial leave thinking that in a week or so I would be well enough to return to school. By the time I finally accepted that I wouldn’t be going back to work… Read more
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What’s Your Superpower?
If you could have one superpower in the classroom, what would it be and how would it help? This question was posed on Twitter a while ago. I don’t remember who posted it or even when it was shared. I just know that I immediately wrote it down as a prompt for a future blog… Read more
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One Small Self-Care Habit
Habits can be hard to commit to and maintain. Actually, let me rephrase that sentence: Habits are easy to commit to, but hard to maintain. Promising to create too many (new) habits at once can really derail any attempts to get better at something. My tendency is to want to do it all, but I… Read more
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Being Busy Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Prior to this year, just thinking about all of the things on my to-do list would have made me nervous, but accomplished. Like I was doing important things. And, because I had chosen the majority of these projects myself I was compelled to follow through and complete them. Getting involved with yet another project seemed… Read more
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Browsing the Shelves at the Library
On Sunday, my husband and I went to the new Central Library in Calgary. Although this branch of the public library is considered “state of the art” and has been open for more than a year, we had yet to visit since it’s not in our immediate neighborhood. Since we arrived an hour before closing… Read more
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Schedule Writing
Lately I’ve been reading a ton, but not writing that much. I sometimes wonder if I hide my writing behind my reading. I know that to write well I need to read a lot, especially in the type of writing I aim to write. Yet, it seems I often don’t have protected writing time. I… Read more
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2019
As I sit at my dining room/kitchen table (the downstairs living space in my house boasts an open concept, which I love), I turn to look out at the backyard through the large window that faces me. The snow continues to fall. The sky is gray. It’s starting to get bitter cold. Tomorrow and the… Read more
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Elisa Waingort 