YES!! So many congrats and hugs!!

Life jacket worn by a passenger who survived the Titanic auctioned off for over $900,000 A life jacket worn by a passenger on the RMS Titanic has sold at auction for 670,000 pounds, which is more than $900,000.

My 5 year old is obsessed with the Titanic these days. Did we all go through a Titanic phase? apnews.com/article/tita...

Finding Meaningful Moments in a Merger A Shift in Grading in a Smaller Classroom

Finding Meaningful Moments in a Merger
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Thankful for the platform to share my experiences of the past year!

Finished this last night while the kids were in the bath and it was beyond amazing. Should I start documenting my #bathtimereads?

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

Some very good reads this month 📚

Committing to tracking my books read this year. Are we still using Goodreads? How are we keeping track?

Ugh, I am so sorry. Give yourself grace-- and time! Have students work some days in class where you can filter questions, see drafts, etc. More peer review work, scaffold out all assignments for points/ incomplete/ complete.

Spent 2+hours yesterday looking for my passport which I swore I left in my office desk drawer. Opened my desk drawer today to get something out and tucked back in the corner was my passport. Ghosts, perhaps? My poor eyesight? My stress manifesting? All of the above?

A favorite poem by W.S. Merwin to celebrate autumn

I think often about the guy who has a plant swap table in our neighborhood but who also still has all his "Jill Stein for President" signs in the yard.

Two very good summer reads📚

My mind is blown!

This spring has been tough but at least I realized that barrel pants are not for me.

Barrelhouse Writer Camp — Barrelhouse Barrelhouse Writer Camp is short, laid-back writing retreat in central Pennsylvania.

Applications are open for @barrelhouse.bsky.social WRITER CAMP, a laid back, short retreat in Central PA. 6/26-29, and 7/31-8/3. All we do is write & nap & hang out around campfires & watch mostly bad movies. No programming. Just do your thing. Its the best. www.barrelhousemag.com/writer-camp

In better news: books I am teaching and reading this week 📚

Thank you for asking this because I needed it as well!

Such a hard line between wanted to keep up with the news/stay informed especially for my students but my gosh, this is so hard to take in.

I refuse to buy sports team merchandise for my kids so my 4yr old has been just been wearing a green shirt with a moth on it every time they have an Eagles spirit day but I guess it's working so "Go Moths!"

Still so cold but campus is still very pretty

Moved over here for the time being as the other platforms are feeling very icky.