Saint Hewett

May is a crazy time. Maybe not for everyone, but especially for teachers. It's alumni season, so my previous students are stopping in -...

I'm writing this with five tabs open on my browser and a couple other programs running in my brain. The other week I had a conversation...

When I was in grad school, the "cultural integration" portion of my lesson plans often seemed ambiguous and difficult to write in a...

I'll never forget Mike pushing me to workout on the stair master one of my last weeks in New Zealand. I was huffing and puffing and...

Making friends with librarians is some of the best life advice I can give. The current BFA librarians regularly recommend good books and...

In the spirit of transparency, I've considered leaving the teaching profession many times this year. This year is hard. I've read a lot...

Once upon a time, I was a cynical jerk face. I'm in progress, but I'm a lot better than a used to be. A lot of my formation into a more...

This morning Anne began her message reflecting on how the Gospel passage seemed to have disjointed thoughts of Jesus lined up next to...

"Did you know that the Blazers could have drafted Michael Jordan?" I was riffing off of the example sentence in my worksheet teaching...

Miracles don't happen. Except when they do. I waffle back and forth on what to call a miracle. I'm pretty content to say the time someone...

What a week - full of goodbyes and transitions - the two things TCKs hate the most. But hey, something's in the air - Aslan is on the...

Any student death would be a tragedy. But this wasn’t just any student. This was one of the four people I’ve agreed to get matching...

When I was in elementary school, the tiny private K-12 I attended had only one small campus, and after school I would often hope for a...

“How do I know the voice isn't just me but is the Holy Spirit?" "Excellent question. I promise not everything you think is from the Holy...

I never signed anything binding to assure any audience that I'd post weekly, but I actually value all the people who check this site to...

I was chatting with one of my first students from BFA and her fiancé, and Alyssa reminisced about the first week of class with me as her...

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about how during his visit in July Seth and I decided to get matching shield tattoos and how I'd also read...

This week at our all staff conference, Michele Phoenix (yes, the Michele Phoenix) shared an encouraging video about serving young people...

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...

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