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January | 2015 | A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea

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A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea. Thoughts from a grad student. Busy Loneliness: Why Is It Hard for Women to be Friends? January 23, 2015. January 25, 2015. Making girl friends was so simple when I was a kid. Because my dad was in the Air Force, we moved around a lot, and I had my friend-making routine down pat. Find some girls in the neighborhood who were playing outside, walk up to them and say “Hi, what’s your name? Do you want to jump rope or build a fort? But full schedules aren’t the only re...

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Sorry, Not Sorry | A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea

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A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea. Thoughts from a grad student. Sorry, Not Sorry. March 22, 2015. Image credit: pamperish.com. Like most people, I suck at keeping New Year’s resolutions. I start the year with great intentions and a long list of concrete area to improve. Morning bicep curls! Less than 10 minutes of computer time per day! Color coded stacks of sweaters in the closet! I resolved to apologize less. This resolution came about one day in early January when I was typing out an email to a co-wo...

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July | 2015 | A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea

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A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea. Thoughts from a grad student. Summer Travels and a New Home. July 25, 2015. I don’t normally do personal updates on this blog, but then, this hasn’t been a “normal” summer by any account! Normal summers are lemonade and beach chairs, long books, solitary hikes, brunch with teacher friends, and maybe a professional conference. This summer was an ending, a beginning, and a LOT of car time inbetween. Those kids and their sweetness. Gets me every time. Being beach bums....

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What to Say and What Not to Say to a Woman Who’s Infertile | A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea

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A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea. Thoughts from a grad student. What to Say and What Not to Say to a Woman Who’s Infertile. March 8, 2015. March 15, 2015. Most of the time, they just don’t know what to say, and their expressions alternate between pity and embarrassment. When they finally manage to respond, it’s not typically the most encouraging words that come out of their mouths. 1 As soon as you stop trying to have kids, it’ll happen. This might be the worst of all of them. I cannot think of any ...

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Painting Pictures with Our Lives | A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea

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A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea. Thoughts from a grad student. Painting Pictures with Our Lives. May 3, 2015. May 3, 2015. Image credit: theartstack.com. One of the loveliest pictures we can paint with our lives is marriage. An old wedding sermon from the Book of Common Prayer states that marriage “signif[ies] unto us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and His church” (I learned that from the end of the 5 hour version of. But sometimes the picture is stunningly clear. The other day, I went to th...

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Contemplating Resurrection in the Face of an Unbearably Temporal Life | A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea

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A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea. Thoughts from a grad student. Contemplating Resurrection in the Face of an Unbearably Temporal Life. April 5, 2015. April 5, 2015. Recently, I read two sad books. The Fault in Our Stars. For those of you who don’t know,. The Fault in Our Stars. Later in the novel, Augustus echoes the same philosophy when he declares his love for Hazel:. 8220;I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we&#8217...

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The Art of Moving | A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea

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A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea. Thoughts from a grad student. The Art of Moving. May 8, 2015. May 8, 2015. 8220;Honey, have you seen my slippers? 8220;Yeah, they’re in the box! First, there’s processing all of your belongings, passing every clothing item, book, and dish through your hands, asking yourself if it means enough to you to pay to haul it a couple thousand miles across the country. That in itself is a mini-identity crisis. What do these objects mean to me? And some are painfully abrupt. ...

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The Lessons I Learned Walking To and From Work | A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea

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A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea. Thoughts from a grad student. The Lessons I Learned Walking To and From Work. March 15, 2015. March 15, 2015. Morning sunshine on my daily commute. Hard to be in a bad mood, even on a Monday. Little did I realize all the benefits and blessings that would come my way through my daily commute. Spring flowers growing by the sidewalk. Not ugly. Very cool cloud formation on the walk home. Would I have seen them in the car? Yes Would I have stopped and really looked at them?

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A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea. Thoughts from a grad student. How The Devil Wears Prada Helped Me Write My Best Paper Ever. August 17, 2016. August 18, 2016. Image credit: slashfilm.com. A few weeks ago, Tim and I went downtown for drinks late after dinner one night. I was feeling beyond discouraged about my first year exam and complained that the copious amounts of feedback I’d been getting on the last two drafts had been overwhelmingly negative…as in, hardly any positive comments. If you’ve ne...

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11 Reflections on 11 Years of Teaching | A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea

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A Stack of Books and a Cup of Tea. Thoughts from a grad student. 11 Reflections on 11 Years of Teaching. June 2, 2015. June 3, 2015. This photo pretty well sums up every day in the HS classroom…. This is my last week as a high school English teacher. I realized the other days that I’m even going to have to change the subtitle on my blog. “Thoughts from someone in a Ph.D. program”? 8220;Thoughts from a former high school English teacher who hopes to be a professor someday”? Even as an extrovert, I had tho...