This is the longest I’ve gone without writing something on this blog… and I have to admit that I kinda miss it!\u00a0 (And it’s only been a couple of days!)\u00a0 It’s become a normal part of my routine, even though it doesn’t ever fall at a regular time on my schedule.\u00a0 It helps so much for me to do a bit of writing every day or so.\u00a0 (I try to convince my students that writing has value even beyond contributing to academic and career success – it’s a great personal exercise for life in general.\u00a0 My 8th graders didn’t buy it.\u00a0 I gave them 20 minutes to write a “journal” entry of their choosing and at least a third wrote about how useless journal writing is and how boring school is!\u00a0 Sad…) Anyway, two things have kept me away from the keyboard recently.\u00a0 1)\u00a0 I’m feeling sickly.\u00a0 Sore throat, runny nose, sneezing, TIREDNESS.\u00a0 And 2) We are spending extra hours on play practice.\u00a0 Opening Night for “12 Angry Jurors” is just three days away.\u00a0 Tomorrow is dress rehearsal, Thursday we are taking some down time because several cast members have other activities going on then, and\u00a0on FRIDAY the curtain goes up at 7:00 PM sharp.\u00a0 So this ends up being a stressful week.\u00a0 It will all come together in the end, though. It is nice to sit back sometimes and recognize that all I’m sweating are piddly details – all the big stuff, the important stuff, the ETERNAL stuff – is in much more competent Hands than mine… P.S.\u00a0 Just because I haven’t written, does not mean I have not kept my commitment to Throw, Give or Sell on a daily basis.\u00a0 I have kept on top of it and even taken pictures … just haven’t written all of them up yet.\u00a0 I’ll get caught up soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is the longest I’ve gone without writing something on this blog… and I have to admit that I kinda miss it!\u00a0 (And it’s only been a couple of days!)\u00a0 It’s become a normal part of my routine, even though it doesn’t ever fall at a regular time on my schedule.\u00a0 It helps so much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5979,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions\/5979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}