5/11: waiting

...until today to write some emails.  Though it meant putting them off last week, I didn't want to write when rushed and scattered.  This evening I was more collected, and that allowed me to focus on choosing my words and making connections to the people I was writing to.

5/10: a handful

...of berries gathered at the end of my morning walk.  There won't be as many this year as last year, so a handful seemed like bounty.

5/9: taking a break

...from grading.  I got enough done on Friday that I can pause for the weekend.

5/8: receiving

...wonderful sweet Greek bread, made by a graduating senior.

5/7: reading

...Mac Barnett's Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children and then Runaway Bunny and The Indoor Noisy Book by Margaret Wise Brown.  

5/6: devising

...the final writing prompts for the Myths & Picturebooks class.  I like the way I decided to list and divvy up possible things for them to focus on.

5/5: again trying to be okay

...about speaking up in a committee meeting, even though I was bringing up substantive issues that weren't necessarily welcome.

5/4: trying to be okay

...about standing up for myself when I had scheduled a room and people who hadn't scheduled it were using it.