“Hope for the best, prepare for the worst,” is commonly advised to campers before heading out on Extra Day Trips. Though I have often taken this to mean, “Don’t forget your rainfly and bring enough sunscreen to share with everyone who forgets,” my adventures through the Southern Sierra last week demonstrated that this phrase should be applied […]
Author Archives: Liz Witmer
Freshmen Teaching Freshman
When the idea of teaching my own English class was posed to me last spring, I was excited for the challenge. Yet when fall came, and eleven new Toads met me in Room C, their wide eyes and curious faces were less endearing than I had anticipated. What if I say the wrong thing? What […]
To The Show People
“Putting on a musical has gotta be the most fulfilling thing a person could ever hope to do.” A line from Detective Cioffi, the leading character in this year’s winter musical, Curtains, which debuted last weekend in the Milligan Center of the Performing Arts. Perhaps if you read my previous post, you may have gathered […]
“Good takes a day, impossible takes a week”
I arrived home late last night, began to pull the miscellaneous colored threads off my jeans and proceeded along with my nighttime routine, knowing sleep itself was a long way off. Next to my reflection in the mirror, a sticky note glared back at me, “Write!” Just over a month has gone by and I […]
The Imagination
The power of imagination appeared evident this Sunday, as the cast and crew gathered to strike the set of the fall production, Six Degrees of Separation. How disheartening it seemed that so much work could go into this creation, only to be taken apart in a few hours. And so it appeared that once the […]
“Hard Work!”
“Hard work” the JV girls volleyball team chanted in a huddle last Wednesday. The call echoed the walls of the Cate Gymnasium, but the scoreboard taunted Thacher with a 13-8 lead, favoring the home team. Cate fans filled the stands in the fleeting minutes of the final set and Thacher’s Coach Vyhnal set the scene […]