The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros My review rating: 4 of 5 starsA very short and easy read. I am finding that I am treating books like a fine mint or chocolate. Something to savor and think about, not to chomp through and prove I read something (or to make my “read” list [...]
Bea Author died I loved that show, and all the Golden Girls in it!
Okay, so now my page has a “theme”. Not sure if I like it though. We’ll give it a whirl and see if it’s for me. Oh and I have to double space so it looks good on my blog (sorry LJers). Hm, I’ll play with the code and see how it looks in [...]
Come on LJ, just connect already! UGH… EDIT: Ah, finally, I have cross-bred (?) my LJ and my new blog! It was so easy, yet I made it so hard. ha Now I need to edit the appearance of my blog…hm… Oh for you LJ folks, I am still going to be looking at LJ, [...]
No time to update, but I have thought of several things to blog about, but I’m sure once I get to it, I’ll forget. Topics that I would like to talk about: Teaching, the dog, teaching the dog, kids, movies
This is only a test…just testing to see if I am able to link my old blog to this one. I downloaded the crossposter, let’s see what happens. Ugh, of course I downloaded the plugin and put it in the right folder (I’m pretty sure) but now there is no place to put in my [...]
Yesterday at the Art Institute we had our “Day of Service”. Students from local organizations and charities came to the school. Organizations like Big Brothers Big Sisters and Texas Baptist Children’s Home were invited. But due to lack of prep time (put together in a week or two), only 6 kids showed up. It was [...]
Last night my friend celebrated her birthday. We had dinner at Spaghetti Warehouse and then headed next door to Six (owned by Lance Armstrong). It was a pretty fun night. A total girls night out. We were at the club till about 12:30am and we headed out. I expected to go to another club, ready [...]
I recently met a professor at my school who is doing a research study on young Hispanic males (for his PhD). Why “young Hispanic males” you ask? This is the group with the highest drop out rate. He has done a lot of research and conducted his own trials in trying to find a way [...]
I am a big sister in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program here in Austin and I have a wonderful “little”. I highly recommend mentoring a young person. In San Antonio I worked with Communities in Schools and here in Austin I am with BBBS and it’s just awesome. I know once we have a [...]