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  • 2016 Year in Review

    Most years, I complete a sort of informal “annual report” for my life. I love to reflect upon the high and lows of the previous year. It helps me to digest some important lessons, put a finger on the pulse of my goals, and look ahead to the next year with anticipation and focus. 2015 Continue reading

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  • Teachers Pay Teachers

    Earlier during spring semester of this year, my Comp II students read a book called The Glass Castle. I knew the themes of self-preservation, self-reliance, and success beyond a familial influence of poverty and addiction would be perfect for my students. We compared the book’s characters and symbols to those from poems and short stories. We Continue reading

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  • The End of an Era (Again)

      During the summer of 2015, I happened upon a UGA-System human resources page that had a link to a part-time English/Humanities position at a school I’d never even heard of. Without a lot of thought, I read the job description, uploaded a cover letter, my CV, and applied for the job. I don’t even Continue reading

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  • Oxygen 365

    Earlier this summer I was contacted to do a video interview for Oxygen 365 and their podcast. Noel Meador, their CEO interviewed me about Mission Ready Marriage. You can watch the video here. Continue reading

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  • #morethanaspouse

    This post first appeared on Branching Out, by the National Military Family Association. When we entered the world of military service, now, almost five years ago, I set aside my part-time career as an adjunct English instructor at my alma mater. This was a job I enjoyed for almost eight years; a job for which Continue reading

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  • A Promise

    At this time nine years ago I was in active labor and was ready to push and deliver our final child, a girl. At 4:03 pm on August 30, 2007, nearly five weeks before her official due date, Katherine Anne Wood made her entrance into the world at exactly 7.0 pounds; a number that Biblically Continue reading

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  • 2016-2017 Homeschool Resources

    Every year I try to type up a post of what we plan to cover for the year, if not a complete curriculum list. I didn’t have the forethought to do it for 2011-2012. (I did, however, have the forethought to buy a denim jumper and fix my hair like Michelle Duggar and write about Continue reading

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  • American Home School Ninja Warrior [July]

    In 2015, I committed to a project and series for my blog called Teach Them Diligently. It was a way to keep myself accountable to teaching and training our kids in good habits and building not only their confidence, but also a way to move them toward intentional independence. We all enjoyed the process. Here Continue reading

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  • Experiment update || 05 ||

    Today marks nine weeks of this proposed 180 day, four month experiment…I’m roughly halfway through the time I set out to realign some things in my life. {excerpt from April 24} For example, I’d tell you that my spiritual life is of foremost importance and yet, I have not practiced regular, disciplined Bible study most Continue reading

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  • Experiment Update || 04 ||

    Summer is trucking right along. It’s already the second week of June and I know August and back-to-school will be here before we know it. Our summer has been very full so far. Immediately following our Hawaii trip, we all went to Williamsburg with Ryan’s folks. We returned home and the very next day, Thomas Continue reading

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