This is the third time “Back to School” has been a Highlights topic. I can’t help it…it’s the teacher in me. I love the beginning of September—back to school shopping, setting up my classroom, filling out my plan book. I hope going back to school never loses its excitement for me. Of course, going back [...]
If the kids in your neighborhood haven’t gone back to school already, they probably are this week. Here I am, about to start my 27th year of life and I haven’t been off the academic calendar since I was 3. I love September. I love the change in weather, I love the return of fall [...]
This isn’t the first time I’ve written about school lunch (April 1, 2009; August 23, 2010). As a public school teacher in a district where many of the students are on free or reduced lunch and as a person who is fairly picky about what I put in my body, it’s an issue I naturally [...]
Lunchtime conversations in the teacher’s lunch room are almost always interesting, though usually not blog worthy despite the fact that they are frequently about food. The other day, however, I was chilling out, eating my Chobani, enjoying the mid-day chatter and the chance to sit for a whole 15 minutes. The conversation moved to food [...]
Contrary to appearances, I have not dropped off the face of the earth. I have, however, gotten a job. I knew when I wasn’t hired for the job I wanted, I wouldn’t be out of work for long. Last year, I was substitute teaching every day by the beginning of October. I wasn’t happy about [...]
I hate to break it to you, but it’s just about time to go back to school (if you haven’t gone back already). I’m not even going to count the days until Brian goes back to work (and hopefully I do too, but I’m still waiting to hear. Story of my life.) Let’s just say [...]
Disclaimer: this post isn’t about food. It’s barely about this site. It’s mostly about me not wanting to do my work. Ever visit Wordle? I hadn’t in a while, but just popped over there as part of a project for work. I plugged in the URL for Relishments and this is what I got:I really [...]
Shortly after watching the 5th episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, my husband asked if I thought the show was actually going to have any effect. It’s a version of a conversation we’ve had many times: what difference does one person, whether they’re eating organic, shopping at a farmer’s market, writing a blog or creating [...]
A couple months ago I started getting really excited about Jamie’s Food Revolution, a new TV show coming to ABC. The excitement started when he won the TED Prize (love TED!) this year. This video is of TED Prize speech: And here’s the premiere of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. It’s really good and I’m really [...]
Brian and I were both sick all week. That’s my excuse for lack of posts this week. I wonder what my excuse will be next week :) This week I got the really cool opportunity to show one of my classes Food, Inc. Obviously, I was really excited about showing it and even more excited [...]
