I started this blog with the original goal of writing something inspiring 2 or 3 times a week. I then realized that would be a lot of prose writing, so maybe once a week would be a better goal. And then, life happened. Family came into town, my older daughter had a day off to play at a museum with me and her daughter, and I had AC issues. Add to that a backload of laundry to do, bugs to kill, and a yard to take care of, blogging took a back seat. In the process of NOT blogging, I did determine I needed to be creative. So I branched out, reached out of my comfort zone, and began drawing with chalk/pastels. I discovered another benefit to my new medium of creative effort: as I struggled with my vast lack of perfection, I could understand the struggle many of my students face in math. What? You may be asking what does drawing have to do with student struggle. I say, EVERYTHING!! Every day I ask my math students to step out of their comfort zones. Every day I ask students w