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“There is no such thing, we discovered, as disciplining one corner of a life. There are only disciplined or undisciplined lives.” – Carey Wallace, On Discipline I attended my first Art House Local event last night, a quarterly meeting of creative Christians birthed out of Art House America. Dotting the DFW landscape, multiple groups met to…
In my last post, I related how Dirk Nowitzki and I taught 100 4th-graders how to write more betterer. Here’s part two of the Skype interview, sans Dirk. What tips do you have for 4th grade writers? The first one should go without saying. Listen to your teachers. Mrs. [the teacher that set up the…
Last Friday morning, 100 fourth-graders interviewed me via Skype. This encouraging experience occurred because one of their teachers also happens to be part of my homegroup at church. Her school had a technology day and the kids had been preparing for their TAKS test (if memory serves correctly). I believe this would also mark the…
Did you participate in U.I.L. contests in Junior High or High School? In Texas, the University Interscholastic League sponsored contests between schools covering a wide range of academic topics. In Junior High, I tied for 6th in a U.I.L. spelling contest. Unfortunately, the powers that be at that particular contest failed to notify me of…
While I enjoy food just as much as the next person, I’m fairly inept when it comes to actually making anything. I can fling a pizza in the oven, and I can throw fritos on chili, and I can scramble eggs. That’s the extent of my culinary skills. But there may be hope for me…