1. Hello! I just wanted to inform you that we Orthodox Christians celebrate the Easter exacrly one week after Protestants and Catholics, so if you have a chance, you can visit an Orthodox Church during the Holy Week (tomorrow is Saturday of Lazarus and then Palm Sunday). Also, if you like, you can watch the ceremony of the Holy Fire miracle online or on major tv networks (it happens every Orthodox Easter in Jerusalem, at Jesus Tomb). God bless you and your child!
    simplyorthodox

    Thank you :) I don’t know if I’ll be able to make it out to the nearest Orthodox Church in the next couple weeks, but I am definitely planning on picking up my search for a church very soon. (I took a break from looking during Lent.) The Orthodox Church is still near the very top of my list of places to visit. 

  2. "West Virginians, and Appalachians in general, are often subject to stereotypes that cast them as culturally deficient, isolated from American society by ignorance, feuds, and fear. The jokes leave scars as deep as those of mountaintop removal. To learn, through archaeology, that the miners were not lawless, but fought with justification and skill - and that they may have been winning - is a matter of personal and regional pride. The mountain itself has come to represent some sense of Appalachian self-wroth, separate from the industry that has dominated the region’s modern history."
    Samir S. Patel, Archaeology, January/February 2012 (via theseasonfor-dreaming)

  4. … And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless… of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?” Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

  5. Morning People Baffle Me, or Finding the Time to Write

    doomedbooks:

    I am not a morning person. This fact is confirmed each time I get stuck in the elevator at work—before my first cup of coffee—with some poor soul who actually is a morning person. It’s never pretty. Because of this unfortunate flaw in my genetic make-up, I do my writing at night, after I’ve gotten home from work, made dinner, and done any number of other grown-up type duties. Not surprisingly, prodding my foggy brain and tired fingers to tap out fictional masterpieces at that late hour is never my first choice of leisure activity. This is the rock and hard place that belong to most writers who work full-time at non-writerly jobs.

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    Oh, time.

    I recently told my best friend, “I’m gonna do it! I’m gonna write a little bit every single day and finally be able to call myself a Writer.” (I struggle with defining myself as one, even though I have to write to stay sane.) We’ll see if that actually goes anywhere…

    I’m in a position now where I handle a lot of writing but don’t get to write enough of my own. I teach college-level writing classes as a graduate assistant, so I’m reading a lot of freshman writing and writing academic papers for my grad classes. Then there’s the whole having a kid thing that takes away a lot of potential writing time (though I’m realizing that my daughter actually provides a lot of writing inspiration). 

    Unfortunately, the best time for me to write is also the middle of the night, and I don’t have definite space where I do it. Last night, for instance, I sprawled out in bed on my stomach and managed to get the first 600 words of something-or-other written.

  6. The Cardigans—”My Favourite Game”

    I loved this song “back in the day,” and I’ve heard it about once every other year since it was released but could never remember anything about it to help me search for it on YouTube. Somehow, my late-night Internet browsing finally brought me to it :) 

  7. skipthelightfandango: Haha basically today in a nut shell Love you Michigan <3

    skipthelightfandango:

    Haha basically today in a nut shell

    Love you Michigan <3

  9. bffproductions:

    THisis the best thing I have seen in a long time. 

    kellyoxford:

    Kristen Bell and I have the same excited/sad crying scale.
    Holy shit, I love you Kristen.

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Single mom to an awesome 4-year-old daughter.

(Tumblr name comes from Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks.)

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