I’ll be honest with you—I recently had one of those mornings where joy felt like it hit the snooze button and decided not to show up. Have you ever been there? You open your eyes, stretch, inhale courage, and… nothing. Not even a sparkly flicker. Even my coffee looked at me like, “Girl, you’re on your own today.”
Growing up in a small town in Oklahoma, Christmas was always a special time of year for me as a child. The town went all out decorating, and my parents decorated so much that it looked like a Christmas explosion throughout the house. Most of all, we felt blessed to be surrounded by warmth and love.
For over a decade, the students of the “BioTex” honors seminar at NTCC have experienced a November “email shootout.” This is something like a cross between an ongoing basketball game with scores changing in real time, and a fast-paced, scholarly- poetic thinkathon. The course challenges students to conceptualize the elements of their Texas history research essays, to utilize crossover “analogs, (terms)” particularly from biology and other scientific fields, and to provide terse definitions of newly minted concepts.
The Steel Country Bee has been asking local students questions about holiday wishes. This week’s question is: “If you could give one person anything for Christmas, who would it be and why?” Here are five responses.
