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Continue reading →: Happy Memorial Day!
First, thank you to everyone who has served — and to the families who support them. I may not always agree with the decisions made by our government, but I’ll always respect the people who choose to serve. One of my students recently returned from Reserve training, and it was…
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Continue reading →: Friday Favorites – New Year Edition
Happy Memorial Day weekend! I’m joining Friday Favorites this week and re-committing to the blog. I’ve finished my Spring semester at one college and only have finals at another, so for me, it feels like a new year! So, this Friday Favorite is my last of this (academic) year and…
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Continue reading →: Teaching Tuesday – Debate and Dialogue
This semester, I taught Argumentation and Advocacy. One of my favorite classes, even if the deductive logic unit tests everyone’s patience. The ongoing challenge is giving students enough debate practice to feel genuinely skilled. Over time, I’ve experimented with a few approaches that seem to work well for both me…
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Continue reading →: Friday Favorites: End of April Edition
Once again joining A Little Bit of Everything and Momfessionals for Friday Favorites! Please consider joining and celebrating your weekly wins and faves. I am a day late again. And I have been really struggling with keeping up with the blog lately. To be truthful, I’ve been struggling with keeping…
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Continue reading →: Big Weekend at Golden Gate Bridging
We just returned from our Golden Gate Bridging weekend in San Francisco/Fairfax, CA! It was fun, but also educational to me about what my girls REALLY need more of. But, let’s start with… The Good Stuff We walked across the Golden Gate Bridge to celebrate our senior bridging to adult…
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Continue reading →: Teaching Tuesday – When showing up isn’t enough
This has been a hard semester. Not in a dramatic, everything-is-on-fire kind of way. More in a quiet, persistent friction that’s been building week after week. The kind that makes you start questioning things you used to feel sure about. I teach public speaking and argumentation. My classes are built…
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Continue reading →: Getting Back to Baseline
This past week did not go as planned. I had every intention of posting for Teaching Tuesday, but I ended up getting sick—again. I pushed through work that day, but by the evening I felt awful. Exhausted, achy, congested… the kind of sick where your body just says, “Stop.” So…
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Continue reading →: Teaching Tuesday Preview
I’ve been teaching for a long time. I design lessons, build assignments, facilitate difficult conversations, and think deeply about how students learn in my Communication classrooms and now in First-Year seminars. And yet—when it comes to sharing my work publicly—I’ve felt stuck. Not because I don’t have experience or things…
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Continue reading →: Friday Favorites – Sick Edition
Joining A Little Bit of Everything and Momfessionals again for Friday Favorites. I don’t have a ton of photos this week because I spent most of it on my couch with a horrible sore throat, congestion, laryngitis, and achiness. I stayed home from work on Monday and Tuesday, went back…
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Continue reading →: Marking Time…
I am SHOCKED that tomorrow is the last day of March and quarter one of 2026!! Anyone else? Or is it just me? I feel like I have a big need for some way of marking time more meaningfully. Especially as I get ready to enter my daughter’s Senior year…
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I’m Sue
Welcome to Speaking of Easy! I am a Public Speaking and Communication Studies instructor and I love to do things the easy way. I am a Nor Cal girl through and through. I have a teen daughter, multiple jobs, a Senior/Ambassador Girl Scout troop and learning to love life!
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