It wouldn’t be Michigan if it weren’t 80 degrees one day and a rainy 50 degrees the next.  Sounds about right! Yesterday was cold and rainy... and it was a long day. Sometimes I let the weather shape my mood more than I should. Guess I should work on that.  But I was reading some... Continue Reading →

In the movie Inception, a frustratingly clever piece of cinema, dreaming is explored and consequently exploited. Dreams are entered by uninvited guests, and ideas are stolen from and/or planted in the dreamer’s mind. It’s actually pretty creepy when you think about it too long. But nonetheless, it’s an incredibly fascinating movie.  While it’s not actually... Continue Reading →

It all started with pants.  Well, sort of. In the literature discussion class that I teach, we are reading the American Girl books of Kirsten Larson. The stories are set in Minnesota in 1854. We were talking about the fact that Kirsten wore dresses everyday, and she had to tuck her skirt into her apron... Continue Reading →