A Kenzie Randall Story

Songs to Listen to While Doing the Dishes: 1. Drops of Jupiter, Train 2. Wildfire, John Mayer 3. Shape of You, Ed Sheeran 4. Downtown, Macklemore 5. Crazy, Ben Rector Lines of Literature Read This Semester: 1. "Sometimes you have to make yourself a stranger to your own life in order to recognize the things you take for granted. Like sunsets, or hot showers, or alphabet. My health, my family, the streams of photons sent from our star- how had I stopped actually seeing these things?" -Anthony Doerr, The Big Chill 2. “What I teach and how I teach is an extension of my belief about the capacity of humans to grow and change, my understanding that while students might enter my classroom without skills, they don’t enter my classroom without knowledge or talent or potential” -Linda Christensen, Teaching for Joy and Justice 3. "Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and su...

I love reading blogs. Teaching is so overwhelming and also so inspiring. It’s terrifying because you can either make the biggest difference or make no difference at all. And what if I can’t figure out how to do the first one? What if I don’t have enough passion? What if I don’t have enough time? What if I don’t have enough energy? What if what if what if I fail? Or even worse, what if I hate it? Or what if I love it and don’t ever want to do anything else? That would be cool. I hope it sets my soul on fire and I find fulfillment. Because in my head, I really love it.  I’ve been into Train lately. I love when you forget about a band and then re-discover them and realize oh yeah they are awesome no wonder I always listened to them. And Train always has such random lyrics that make me laugh. The past few nights I’ve woken up at like 4 in the morning, ready to party. I am not a fan of that.  I really hate birth control. But it also gives me excuses for a lot of th...