Welcome! I hope that you are able to learn a little bit about Jesus and agriculture while you hang out here on my blog! I am very much a type A personality and get frustrated when things are not easy for me to locate, so I put together a quick guide that might help you get …
More Than Just The Ag Teacher
Recently a poem came across my Facebook feed being shared by many of my fellow agriculture teacher friends called "Please Pardon the Ag Teacher", so naturally I had to read it. Even though I whole hardily agree and embrace most of it, there were two little phrases that rubbed me the wrong way as they …
The Raft
Life, like always has been a crazy ride recently. My summer has proved to be both restful and challenging in good ways because of how I am growing. I want to take some time to reflect on this past school and really how my experience of being a new teacher has gone. I had a …
Identity Crisis
Today as I was running I was thinking about some interactions I've had with friends lately and I kept coming back around to this idea of how hard our internal identity is to shake or change, but how we can look so different from that identity to those around us. What really is our identity …
Lessons from Geraniums
Wow, we've already made it to July! I think the summer goes by even faster when you are a teacher than when you are a student. This past school year, if you spend pretty much anytime talking to me during the spring, you would know that I was charged with raising geraniums for our high …
I Let Myself Walk
I have a confession to make - Running has not been fun for me lately. This may come as a surprise to some of you, especially those of you who know how excited I am to now be a part of #TeamBeef, and to others a shock I EVER like running. Tonight I set out …
Cows and the Environment
Since #MayisBeefMonth, I thought it was appropriate to talk about a topic I've seen rising up to the forefront of media yet again - Are cows actually that bad for the environment? This issue has come up yet again in response to President Joe Biden's Greenhouse Emission Policy, where the President was misquoted as stating …
My Story – The Catch-All
The last time I made a post for this mini blog series was over 2 years ago and I left off talking about my life in 2016. That girl seems so far away and so different from the person I am today. The continually trying to backtrack in my life isn't really working out so …
A Farm Girl, Her Bible, & Some Combat Boots 