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passion quilt

Michael Stephens tagged me for a pretty cool meme. Here’s the deal:
Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative Commons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most passionate about for kids to learn about…and give your picture a short title.

Original image here.
This is an image I used in [...]

the year in sentences

First spotted on Walt’s blog, and seen on many others since, here are the first sentences of the first posts of every month in 2007 here at bwal.net. The missing August and September? That’s not me forgetting my months of the year, it’s me being a hopelessly inconsistent and generally lazy blogger. Can you expect [...]

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Random things, that is. Blame Rachel!

I lived in the Middle East for the first 18 years of my life. It was different.
I’m a big fan of horror/slasher films (especially of the DTM variety) but I almost always have nightmares after I watch one. Price I’m willing to pay.
Fact: I’m really good at wrapping gifts, regardless [...]

five things

Stephen tagged me for the five things meme that’s been going around. So, here you go, five things you probably don’t know about me:

My M.A. thesis topic was female spirituality and devotional literature in late Medieval England. I still find hagiography utterly fascinating.
I used to be terrified of public speaking. Then I started teaching info [...]