You have a deadline to respond to an email that requires you to focus, provide a solution and details. What do you do? You go buy yourself a coffee, meander to the lounge area and spend time carefully analyzing the contents of a vending machine. Or maybe you have decided that you are going to […]
Hello, class. Today we are going to try and figure out why leaves change color in the fall. You will work with a partner and if you have any questions, you will first have to try and work them out in your group. I would like to point out, that once you are finished your […]
Guess what? It’s Sunday! And it means that I have another recipe for you! There are days in all of our lives when we just want something sweet, chocolatey and quick. And by quick, I mean that you don’t want to find a recipe, look through your fridge and pantry and realize that you have to […]
A doctor’s kid is always sick, a shoemaker’s kid is walking barefoot, a teacher’s kid constantly gets detentions. You get the picture. Well, a person, who loves everything language, has an 8-year-old son who makes her (and everyone around) wonder and gives us hours of entertainment. Plus some material for my blog:) Here are just a […]
You know, when you are approaching a “big” birthday, you start reevaluating your life, or looking back and seeing what you have achieved over the past decade. Although I still have another year, as I was getting ready to go out with my girls on my birthday last month, and was trying to decide what […]
Lithuanians love apples (among other things). We use them in salads, bake meats with them, cook them in soups to add a bit of tartness.When in doubt, apple is always a good idea in my book. Pretty much like bacon. When I was a kid we used to go apple picking to our “sodas”. Back […]
It was a dreary rainy day. One that makes your kids zonk out in front of TV for hours on end and a simple request to “please turn it down” or “wash your hands” turns them into groaning zombies. It is on a day like this that we all reached the peak of discontent with […]
Today I stopped by a classroom to talk to a teacher about one of our students. As I entered the room, she was looking at an upcoming professional development schedule on her computer and shaking her head. “This is all good”, she said. “But I could really use some information on how to work with someone […]
Long weekend in the fall…The possibilities are endless in terms of where to go and what to do because fall in New Hampshire makes one forget the desire to seek warmer climates that hits you, say, right after New Years (give or take a few weeks or months:) So today, the boys and I decided […]
“I’m an Italian”, “I’m Irish”, “I’m part Lebanese, part French” – these are all phrases you can hear in just your regular conversation in America. Everyone identifies with a certain culture but when you ask “Do you speak Italian/Irish/Arabic/French?” the answer is quite often “no”. I’ve been thinking about it for quite some time now […]