I have come to fall in love with teaching in Catholic schools. What are YOU in love with?...

"Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you will spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything." - Pedro Arrupe

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Read, Read, Read

Signs that reading has truly taken over your life:


1- When a Scholastic book order arrives, you cannot help but thank the person who told you the box was in the office, and you find yourself so excited about all of the new books for the classroom library...and this is in light of the fact that you just spent most of your bimonthly salary on those very books...

2- Anticipation is inevitable for new updates on blogs like The Nonfiction Detectives, Book Peep Wonders, Teach With Picture Books, A Year of Reading, etc. (And sometimes you proceed directly to the public library website or BarnesandNoble.com to attain a copy of whatever book(s) is(are) suggested.)

3- You are registered - and your calendar is already marked (and a sub secured) - for a multi-day reading conference in May. You might even be just a tad excited for the additional institute held pre-conference on a Sunday.

4- Free time is spent leisure reading children's and adolescent novels, using the excuse that you need to keep up with your students. (Admittedly, those books are very entertaining.)


Oh, well, let's face it. When I say "you," I really mean me. And, yes, all of the above are true - and they have happened recently.

This makes me wonder...Are there support groups for this kind of addiction?

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