The Sunrise Story

What's the saying? Life is like a roller coaster. This week has seen ups and downs...and I'm tired. I celebrate them all here today. DOWNs... More rain. State testing. End of year exhaustion.  Allergies.  UPs... National Notebook Day! Time spent with friends.  Students falling in love with their notebooks again.   New possibilities. A former student who sees me in the hall and lights up.  Two students starting to write their own book. (One of these students insisted that she hated writing at the beginning of the school year!) That same student publishing her hundredth blog post for the year. (Now, she's on her 103rd post.) Voxes from friends. Moderated a great Twitter chat about Genius Hour .  Another makerspace lesson in class this week. (I'm writing more about that soon.) When I sit down and look at my week, I see so many positive things. I'm surrounded by good friends. Work is crazy, but good. The week ended at my new favorite...

Thank you to Stacey, Betsy, Dana, Tara, Beth, Anna, Kathleen & Deb for this amazing platform to write and share writing! What a wonderful community you've created! I'm honored to be part of it. Join us at Two Writing Teachers . I got my hair cut. Inspired by Stacey's post , I searched for a local salon that had a stylist that performed the "curly cuts"...otherwise known as the Deva cut. Yelp directed me to the Michael Helene Salon . There were lots of great reviews and it's close. I called on Wednesday to make an appointment, hoping to go during spring break. As luck would have it, there was a cancellation for an appointment on the SAME DAY!   I arrived and was greeted by the friendliest two women at the receptionist desk. I filled out a two page questionnaire and started to worry and thought that this seemed like such a fancy place. I don't belong at a fancy salon. The worry disappeared immediately when I realized how sweet and welcoming ...