I was at Starbucks the other day and there was a stout British woman at the counter arguing over whether her coffee should be $2.50 or $2.55. She had a thick British accent and a no-nonsense attitude about her. She had a put-together, yet slightly disheveled look in her short sleeve collared shirt and vest. Read More
I was looking around the iTunes store for good lullaby music for babies, and was quite disturbed/intrigued/confused/interested/befuddled/amused by the Rockabye Baby! albums. These albums are basically lullaby versions of albums by popular artists. Here are the artists featured: U2, The Beatles, Radiohead, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Smashing Pumpkins, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Coldplay, Tool, The Read More
Alison Saar, Sapphire, 1985 Photo taken @ San Jose Museum of Art, December 2006. At the recommendation of my doctor, I took a pre-natal yoga class offered through my medical provider. It’s called Whole Birth Yoga. The main focus of the class was doing yoga poses and learning how to focus and breathe through the Read More
Here are some new pregnant pictures of me for June. I’m around 26/27 weeks pregnant. The first few are at a friend’s wedding (June 9th) and the last ones are at our first baby shower thrown by my coworkers (and friends) at Hyde (June 16th). Enjoy! .
I would say that this has been an exceptionally difficult year. For my blog readers, you are probably already aware of all the stress put on Josh and me from finishing up my master’s degree. But this year has also brought new life. Josh and I are preparing for our first child to be born Read More
Well, today was supposed to be the day I had all of my master’s work done. But, for a variety of reasons, it’s just not quite there yet. I had three classes that had loose ends, and was only able to finish off one of them yesterday. So, I have two left to go. I Read More
My students usually make me a list now and again to help me pick new music to play in my classroom. Usually I find a few bands I like in the pile, and dump the others off as Brittney Spears wannabes or rappers with no respect for women. I found a few trends in the Read More
I left sub notes for a substitute teacher to show a short DVD to my students each period. They’d use that to complete a related assignment that would take the rest of the class period. No kidding, the sub left me this note: “Only did the movie for 1st period because we couldn’t rewind it Read More
I won the honorable award of being KBAY-FM Radio‘s Teacher of the Month! Yeah, that’s the South Bay’s Soft Rock! (I always thought of myself as more of an alternative / punk / folk / indie teacher of the month, but soft rock is cool too.) Anyway, the article is about half way down this Read More
When I share this with people, their eyes usually widen and look at me like I’m some kind of idiot. But, it’s the truth, and I stand by it. I am going to share the three major things that have been really hard for me to get used to during pregnancy. It isn’t nausea – Read More