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No Snow Zone

No Snow Zone

When we first started looking at moving to Colorado I’ll admit that I was a little worried about the winters (which honestly was silly considering where we were moving from). I just kept thinking of that Christmas a few years ago when tons of people were stuck at the Denver airport because of the horrific amount of snow they’d accumulated. I imagined life would be like that, for months. But, the weather hasn’t been like that at all yet, quite…

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A Plumber’s Blessing

A Plumber’s Blessing

Our toilet had a small leak, so our landlords kindly called a plumber to come fix it. When the plumbers arrived one of the men said, “We’re going to take your toilet out, so do you have anywhere you can go, or are you okay?” I’m still not sure what he meant by the word “go,” but decided I didn’t have any errands to run and also didn’t need to go to the bathroom, so I simply replied, “I’m fine.”…

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Literacy

Literacy

As an English teacher, I care about books and quite frankly I am worried about their future. With everyone religiously following reality TV shows and upholding Stephanie Meyers as great literature, I sometimes wonder what will become of the marvelous magic of the written word. While my professors have given me all sorts of upsetting articles to read on the negative influences of text messaging I have been much more alarmed by some of the things I have witnessed with…

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