This week I have been working on a HUGE post about Disneyland Paris, but it is not ready for this week. Instead I have decided to give a brief preview to my upcoming book Coaster Crusade. Yes this is a rough draft, BUT please if you have any comments send me messages about it. I would love to hear some feedback good and bad! I hope you enjoy it and look next week for my big review of Disneyland Paris! Continue reading
In the Heart of Jackson, For the Heart of Jackson
Hurricane Katrina was ten years ago this month. Many are remembering the damage, the flooding, and the thousands of people fleeing the Gulf Coast. I remember riding the storm out as it passed through Clinton. It was still a Category 2 hurricane and many trees fell and our power was out for a week. I had just entered my sophomore year at Mississippi College. I had also just accepted a new job that replaced my student worker job in the Admissions Office in a big way. I accepted a job working at my church with our non-profit His Heart, Inc.
Coaster Crusade – Summer 2015
This summer has been one of my all time favorites if not the best summer ever. Thus I want to share that with you. Summer 2015
Sometime back in the Spring my friend Zach and I were talking as we usually do about life, pop culture, MS college sports, education, and of course roller coasters. We had long loved the thrill of a good ride full of drops, air time, speed, and of course helixes. I am not sure who’s idea it was to take a trip but there it was, an idea. What if right after school let out we just leave for a week and ride as many coasters as possible in the limited time we had. An email thread started between Zach and I as we deduced exactly which parks to try and the best routes to take. We finally settled on three parks towards the East coast: Busch Gardens Williamsburg, King’s Dominion, and Carowinds.
Teacher Appreciation Week
Well if you were anywhere around Facebook last week you saw that it was Teacher Appreciation Week. There were so many posts about influential teachers from elementary school to high school. For a job that has such “little” rewards there really are incredible perks. First of all summer. Do I have to say anything else? Summer’s are awesome. Teachers love them more than students I assure you. Really all holidays are perks. Whenever kids are out, you are out. But with the holidays and all the days off there are big time downfalls. Any teacher will tell you that being at school is way easier than being out of school for a sick day or a personal day. It is so hard to describe on a piece of paper given to a sub (that might not be read at all) all the tiny intricacies of my daily routine as a teacher. There is a certain way I set up my classroom, distribute papers, talk to a certain student in a certain way, look out for cheating, and so many other small, minute things that I could fill a book of instructions for just one day.
What I want to be when I grow up
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and LEAN NOT on your OWN UNDERSTANDING; in all your ways SUBMIT to Him and he will make your paths straight.” – Proverbs 3:5-6
One Year Ago: Thanksgiving Continues On
Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all that live to see such times but that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
– The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
It was the week of Thanksgiving 2013 when I finally went to get a check up on my health. Over the few months prior I had dropped 25 lbs and developed a few odd symptoms. One was that I had a major cough for about a month. The other was a little more grotesque. At night I was sweating. Not like I had a bad dream about falling and woke up sweating, but my back was completely soaked every morning. Not only that, the sweat smelled terrible. I felt like I was leaking acid through my pores every night. Continue reading
My Rant on Mississippi State and Why Cancer is Not Ranked in the Top 25
First off two facts:
1. Mississippi State is number 1 in the AP Top 25 Football Poll for the first time in history.
2. September was blood cancer awareness month.
Now my rant:
