Sunshine Meets Rain

“All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.” – T.E. Lawrence

Every year SPU cancels class for a day so that faculty, staff and students can come together to learn about a certain topic. They call this day the Day of Common Learning and it consists of a keynote speaker in the morning and then seminars in the afternoon.
This year’s topic was Abraham Lincoln so naturally [...]

My friend Sara and I e-mail pretty regularly while at work. Our e-mails are fairly short, but cover a wide topic of things from school and work to clowns.  This morning conversation revolved around this and this.
Yesterday our conversation morphed into a discussion on adorable, preppy children. This led me to the Crewcuts website. In [...]

Our teacher played this for us last night in class and I seriously had will myself not to cry. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard it before from my friend Matt, but it never gets old.

Josué and I moved a month ago (which will be a different post) and because of this move, Connie no longer has a warm, covered, safe place to sleep. She now sleeps outside exposed to all the elements which has been quite an adjustment for me. I’m not used to dew on my window in [...]

The 2nd year of my masters program started this week. And even though I’ve been doing this grad school thing a year, I was still nervous as ever to start the quarter. The beginning of the 2nd year marks a shift in the program. The first year we just talked about teaching, we didn’t really [...]