Jesus Doesn’t Fit in an O-chart
Here is my first podcast… MeriannaCast 1 A few of my thoughts about the dangers of business model infiltrating the church.
Let’s Make a Deal
On my last flight, I realized I’ve stopped enjoying flying. Rather than being amazed at the sights I was able to see and the experience of defying gravity, I was muttering under my breath, “Straighten up! Remember there ate people back here!” I was speechless when I realized how critical I was being. Just because …
The few
On Southwest flights, there are no seat assignments. You board and find your seat. On one flight, the stewardess asked if a few people would be willing to volunteer to move so that a family of four could sit together. No one offered. She offered free adult beverages. Hands went up all over the place. …
Flying with Style
I’m a selfish traveler (or maybe just in general). I want to be appreciated and taken care of when I fly. I don’t want to be blamed when I almost miss a flight when it’s the airline’s fault. So you can imagine my giddiness this morning when I encountered Southwest’s unique flying experience. As we …
Spotify Love
This is why Spotify has outfoxed iTunes. In the age of instant communication and instant feedback, Spotify’s sharing option sets it apart as the best music player. I’ve been sharing music with my friend in England. I can listen with her and we could even recreate the German hip hop dance class that we …
Merianna’s Search for Meaning
I am reading Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. I am fascinated with his voice and the way that he invites his readers into the hearts and minds of concentration camp prisoners. It serves as a good kick in the pants to my incessant whining about the amazingly easy life that I lead. He reflects, “We …
There’s nothing like the real thing
I am a Southern girl, born and raised. I grew up on sweet tea, bbq, and macaroni and cheese. At some point in high school, I started worrying about the caloric intake of each glass of sweet tea. I still wanted the taste of sweet tea without the calories, so I started to use a …
The Power of Social Media
I’m astounded at the number of teachers who complain about teaching in the age of accountability and yet do nothing. We are letting the press and media talk about untruthfully and unfairly about us and our students and we are doing nothing. “It’s the law. There’s nothing we can do.” True. It’s hard to overturn …
Tales of a Technology Teacher
There’s something about being a technology teacher that elicits all kinds of unprovoked bitter diatribes from people. The conversation always starts off nice and neutral and then the question: What do you teach? History and Technology Oh typing, right. No actually we have been doing a lot of blogging and video editing. Oh that’s interesting …
Figuring it out
I grew up in the you-need-a-cell-in-case-of-an-emergency mindset. Texting was around, but the online social community was still based in instant messaging on computers (side note: this is how I learned to type, not by looking under the cardboard screen in typing class!) I was in college at the perfect time for the Facebook outbreak (which …