October 16, 2017
Hello and happy fall! I had to look at my calendar to remember what I did this week and oh yeah, I was studying - ha! I had a paper due on Tuesday and I’ve been working on several other papers as well. LOTS of reading and self-reflection and writing and more reading. I was going to go apple picking yesterday but since I will be attending the Boston LDS Education Conference next weekend I figured I better get some work done ahead of time this weekend. I did take a walk in the nature preserve up Snake Hill Road… Someone told me that the rock walls around here are very old and it seems amazing that people would take the time to build them in the middle of the woods but then I learned that they were built on farms that the trees have reclaimed - nature always wins. The ferns lining the path are also quite lovely. This is one of the books I’m reading and finding very helpful, not only for understanding teenagers but also, surprisingly, it talks about how adults al