Monthly Archives: August 2009
Pray for Chris and Pam.
When I was at skirt!, I worked with a man named Chris, who edited another magazine. Chris and his wife, Pam, are lovely people who came to my housewarming party, and gave me pretty blue candlesticks, and are lovers of … Continue reading
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Three classes later…
…and I’m loving teaching. I had some great discussion over Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times in my afternoon class today. Maybe it’s a cliché, but it’s amazing to watch things click with your students when you’re a teacher. Right now, I’m … Continue reading
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Freshly sharpened pencils and clean white notebook paper
With the entire house all to myself this morning, minus my 3 housemates (including my husband), I’m commandeering the living room for my own purposes of coffee drinking and class planning. I start teaching an Intro to Film class tonight … Continue reading
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Only a little sling.
In our first year of marriage, while we were living in Simon’s cute little hometown just northwest of London, I co-founded a women’s bible study at our church with another American girl who’d moved to England with her husband, too. … Continue reading
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Simon on Having Children
At the Coldplay concert last night, we sat behind a cute family with two daughters who looked to be around ages 7 and 10. Simon: “Those little girls are cute. I think I’d quite like having little girls.” Just then, … Continue reading
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