Saint Hewett

I’ve got my next few tattoos lined up as of today. I’ve known for ages I want to get a bridge tattoo. I grew up in a city nicknamed (amon...

I love the movie Meet the Robinsons for a lot of reasons, but this scene where Lewis fails and the whole family is cheering for him is su...

One of my former students is here for the summer and working as my personal assistant - for those of you who laughed, jokes on you when s...

I spent a lot of time staring at the stars in the night sky several nights this week, and I felt a lot of feelings - which most people kn...

Graduation was last week, and Wednesday was the teacher wrap up day for the 2019-2020 school year. Wednesday was also a meeting and plann...

"Ms. Hewett, I think of you as a bad Christian." "Go on, why is that?" "Because you're a good person. And you don't do what the Bible say...

I had a whole different post in mind yesterday after some really good conversations with students this week, but then this morning I had ...

Today's post comes to you in disjointed stories as I stitch together the lessons I'm learning and the lies I'm rooting out of my life. Pl...

Last night as I was trying to fall asleep, I had a great idea for a blog post. Then I, by the grace of God, managed to fall asleep and st...

I cut my hair off on Monday. Like, a lot of it. I chopped nearly a foot off in a braid, and my housemate took clippers to the rest. After...

If you go through my archive, you'll find more than one reference to the Superchic[k] song "Alright." It showed up in one of my annual pl...

Years ago several of my students were struggling with feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. They found solace making a joke about su...

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Dr. Schaak used to always tell our literature classes at Multnomah, "The goal of literature is empathy." I told my students that in our l...

My TA was getting some addresses for me this week and writing them on envelopes I hoped to have sent out months ago. Yesterday, I also sp...

This past Thursday morning, I was chatting with someone about how she has a lot of questions about Job - and I admitted I have a lot of q...

I don't post absolutely everything on the internet, but the euphemistic pain I was describing in last week's post only got worse through ...

Advent is a beautiful season to celebrate the God become Human, and we often times paint these tidy manger scenes that just nod to the hu...

I can't remember if I mentioned publicly about my monthly commitment to read Isaiah this year. This month, I'm choosing one verse each ch...

This week had some low lows for me. I cried in front of two coworkers on separate occasions Thursday morning just before I taught my firs...