Where you invest your love, you invest your life
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how terrible the situation is for many kids in Jackson County, Kentucky. It’s something that I knew, at least abstractly, coming into my volunteer year, but after working in the schools for five months, it’s becoming much more tangible. A study just came out that listed Kentucky 41st [...]
The rundown
I must apologize for my neglect of my blogging duties last week. The internet at the house has been out for about two weeks so any internet usage means that I need to hang out at work. So, this blog post is going to be a very simple, no-frills, rundown of what has been [...]
The Great Pencil Crisis of 2012
I have decided that all children should be equipped with mechanical pencils. This past week was my first week of being back in the schools after the Christmas break and last week’s snow days. Monday was a fantastic day. My lesson went really well, I had some great discussion with the kids, and SPARK (Scholastic Preparation [...]
There’s something about Christmastime
It’s been a really crazy month, as you might have guessed by the extreme lack of updates. I kept meaning to write a Christmas-themed blog, but there were just so many Christmas things happening that I couldn’t decide what to write about. So here are some of the highlights. The biggest thing happening at [...]
A snow day? For this?
I have to say that snow has been missing in action this winter. There hasn’t been any snow in Kentucky, and there wasn’t any snow in Michigan (gasp!) except for a couple days the whole time that I was at home. However, I did experience my first ever Kentucky snow days this past week. School officials are VERY cautious [...]
The light and the dark
You can run in circles. But it’ll make you dizzy. You can turn into a couch potato. But it’ll make you dull. You can tackle a big job alone. But it’ll make you wish you had someone by your side. You can spend all day thinking about unfortunate things you can’t change. But it’ll make [...]
No one told you life was gonna be this way…
Thursdays are my favorite day of the week. Here’s why: Last Thursday started off pretty horribly. My car has been having problems shifting, so I planned to take it to a garage this morning, which meant I had to get up earlier than usual. Despite waking up early, I walked out the door about five [...]
Smiles that bless me
Thanksgiving at Jackson House near Berea, KY. Sarah is taking the photo but she’s part of the blessing!!! Lois L. (third one back on the left side of the table) is a long-term volunteer with CAP’s Disaster Relief program. She occassionally shares photos from her volunteer experience on this blog.
What about everything?
Part of volunteering at CAP and living in a volunteer house is sharing a meal and a devotion four times a week. Devotions are reflections put together by whoever cooks dinner and they can be pretty much anything. They’re a way to get to know one other and think about why we’re here and how [...]
Thinking about providence and craving a rootbeer float
Teenage boys are weird. Not a groundbreaking revelation, I know, but I spent my Saturday with five teenage boys, so I’ve had recent first-hand experience. Thanks to a CAP donor, Camp AJ received a bunch of tickets to Kentucky’s largest corn maze, so Tim (my housemate and coworker at Camp AJ) and I decided to [...]
