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 words. Chris and Pam have a son named Jake, who has Asperger’s sydrome and Krohn’s [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 27, 2009
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 loving the way these 18-20 year-olds are relating Chaplin’s depression-era film to our current economic [...]
August 24, 2009
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 at a local community college, and I just need some time to go over the [...]
August 19, 2009
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. Jenni, who’s from Texas, had a 10-month-old and a shared love of Bible teacher Beth [...]
August 7, 2009
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, his focus turned to our left, where three girls of about 16 had arrived in [...]
