First, a small recap: In 2015, I decided to go back to college with two goals in mind. I wanted to have an education under my belt that reflected my work in Social Media Management (which I no longer do, btw), and I needed something to do that would distract me from my decision to end my career in Halloween. On the very...

Last year, I did not go to the family Christmas dinner. I don't know why. I think I just wasn't feeling the holidays. I'm sure there was more to it, but that's not what I remember. What I remember was that this was the last Christmas that my maternal grandmother was alive and I didn't see her at that Christmas. Blink and you'll...

You did it. You made it to Winter Break and you've registered for your classes. It's time for some R&R! Hold up! While the last semester is over, and now you can take some time to recharge, it's wise to use this time to prepare for next semester as well. This prep needn't take a lot of time and energy! Most prep you...

As adults, we have responsibilities to our families, bills, and other obligations. Fitting school in with everything life demands can be hard to do. If you are not on some sort of time constraint, I suggest not going to school full time if you also work full time, especially if you have a family. But if you are under a deadline to get...

Add caption I was tired. I had read several children's lit books, trekked to several bookstores, and had read pretty much every anti-bias children's lit booklist to be found. Spurred on by Anti-Bias Curriculum's requirements for anti-biased books, I pressed on, and turned to the last book I had found. I Am Jazz I Am Jazz is a book co-written by Jessica Herthel...

I got a few weird looks from my fellow classmates while reading Introvert Power while sitting outside a classroom, waiting for class to start. And rightly so, considering the class we were waiting for. It was Spring 2016, and my second semester back to school. The class was speech. ...

See Part One here. 'The next leg of my quest to find a great anti-bias book had me looking at other anti-bias themes. I was a bit sad to abandon STEM representation, but Ada Twist, Scientist came the closest to fulfilling my needs for this assignment, but missed out on targeted audience age ranges. That left me needing a book that satisfied Anti-Bias Curriculum's...

The most recent school project in my Children & Diversity class had me searching for an anti-bias children's book to present to the class. Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools For Empowering Young Children states that an anti-biased book is one that promotes diversity in society in "racial, ethnic, gender, economic class, sexual orientation, and disability." With that simple definition, this looked like an easy project...