Professional Development: Conference Season
Photo Credit Melting snow and warming temperatures mean conference season is here! You can find a few conferences throughout the year, but there seems to be an abundance of learning opportunities from April to September. If you've never attended a conference you're missing out. There's nothing as encouraging [...]
Reading Reviews: When Love Calls by Lorna Seilstad
Hannah Gregory is good at many things, but that list doesn't include following rules. So when she is forced to apply for a job as a telephone switchboard operator to support her two sisters, she knows it won't be easy. "Hello Girls" must conduct themselves according to strict--and often bewildering--rules. [...]
The Ramblings: Loving Life
This is the second time I've written this month's Ramblings. As I wrote my first version I realized my Ramblings have a pattern - they've sort of turned in to rants. While there Photo Credit are plenty of things in life that annoy me - snow storms on [...]
Edit Me: A Good Coach Knows the Sport
Photo Credit In 1989 and 1990 Chuck Daly led the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back NBA championships. In 1997 Scotty Bowman coached the Detroit Red Wings to their first Stanley Cup win in forty-two years. It wasn't the first season coaching for either man. They didn't just wake up [...]
An Author’s Journey: by Mary Annslee Urban
Being an author of fiction has been a wonderful and sometimes frustrating pursuit in my life. On any given day my emotions may swing from overjoyed to overly discouraged and back again. After hours of tweaking a chapter I sometimes sit back, tap my chin and think, “I can’t believe [...]