• My thoughts*,  Teaching*

    To Spank, or not to Spank?

    It’s finally here. After three years of complaining to you about writing essays, I am finally writing (procrastinating) my last essay of my academic career. Any essay I write in the future will be for additional qualification courses, which I won’t count. It’s almost bittersweet… I’ve so enjoyed my essay writing experiences… …riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. I’ve written about everything under the sun. Some essays were really boring (John G. Diefenbaker), some were really easy (analyzing Walt Whitman’s poetry), some were really challenging (Critical and Ecological Literacy) and some were very emotionally taxing to write (female genital mutilation or Nazi medical research). I’ve written short essays and long essays (38 pages! I didn’t…

  • Cool Stuff*

    DANCE PARTY*

    I have a confession… This past weekend I reconnected with my inner-14-year-old and have been listening to obscene amounts of 90’s music. haha! Reach back in your mind to a time when helicopter hair and MC Hammer pants were cool (yes, I had a pair and wore them to school). Back when JTT was the hottest thing on the face of the earth (and if you try and tell me your room wasn’t plastered with posters… I’ll know you are lying). Let’s be honest–no one worked a mushroom cut like Jonathan Taylor Thomas. *swoon* Back when the “Boy Band” ruled the charts and music videos were terribly wonderfully cheesy. **Sidenote:…