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Posted on June 2, 2020November 1, 2021 by Querida

Beginning today, I will publish a series of posts designed to help those who want to learn and change. Each post will highlight no more than three specific resources to listen to, read, or watch, to expand your knowledge of history and current events, and to spotlight perspectives you may have never before had reason to consider.

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To The Class of 2020

Posted on May 5, 2020November 1, 2021 by Querida

When I first tried adult coloring books – you know, the ones with intricate patterns and numerous details and fancy mandalas – I was so excited to use my pretty metallic pens while listening to podcasts after the kids went to bed. But I was also overwhelmed. I would sit with a picture like, choose…

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Remember

Posted on December 31, 2019November 1, 2021 by Querida

This holiday season, I’ve carried a particular song with me more than in other years. The first time I heard “Now Behold the Lamb,” I was a fourteen year-old, recently baptized praise dancer trying to learn my first routine. There were maybe eight to ten of us girls who danced together – a few of…

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Morning Has Broken

Posted on October 29, 2019November 1, 2021 by Querida

Several years after being baptized at the age of 14, I prayerfully chose a small Christian college to pursue my degree.  There, I began to struggle with my faith.  Try as I might, I couldn’t unquestioningly accept my college culture’s indoctrination. I couldn’t successfully initiate conversation or debate when I encountered a doctrinal point in…

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Where I’m from

Posted on October 8, 2019November 1, 2021 by Querida

I came across this NPR poetry project recently and decided to undertake it with my students when the time came to write poetry. NPR’s collaborative poem effort was inspired by this gem by George Ella Lyon, after which I modeled my own version in order to demonstrate for my students what they’d be doing. I…

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Slow Fade

Posted on August 29, 2019November 1, 2021 by Querida

August 2015, I was teaching 8th grade English for the first time at a small private school. I had spent hours all summer poring over the books I had scavenged from the room where the same class was taught the year before. The prior May, I had taken home several teacher editions of books to…

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Get out

Posted on May 30, 2019November 1, 2021 by Querida

Have you ever cried to try and get out of something? The tears may have been real, but they also may have been amped up for dramatic effect, all in the hopes that someone will want so badly to stop your tears that they’ll do what you want? I tried that once. To get out…

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Legacy

Posted on May 5, 2019November 1, 2021 by Querida

Near the end of the last act of “Hamilton,” our hero pauses just before he’s shot dead by Aaron Burr. This long pause gives Hamilton time to muse on his legacy – what the word means, what his will be – and to say goodbye to his wife and hello to his mother and son….

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