Both my girls often get into reading ruts. Rut actually has a negative connotation, but I don’t really think this sort of nightly repetition is a bad thing. Occasionally it gets a bit predictable and tiresome for the reader, but repetition is a valuable early reading tool, particularly in texts that already have a repetitive structure. Tikki…
Author: thirdstoryies
scenes from lately
These past few weeks have felt much more like the holiday season than the lazy days of summer. I’m operating in this mode that isn’t really my favorite – I’m constantly thinking about ways to juggle all the things I have to do and want to do, and often that involves doing more than one…
navigating shifts
Monday was my first exam, and it turned out to be a pretty good day. I feel slightly weird about writing that since I still have to wait for an envelope confirming that feeling to arrive in the mail, but I was very prepared going in and I felt confident when I left. That was…