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Use the Bible as a Personal Growth Resource
Three lessons I’m putting into practice and you can too. I love the compass as a symbol for guiding the direction of my life. One such compass for me is the Bible. I look at it as a personal growth resource. That might be weird to say, and in fact,… Read more ⇢
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What I’ve Learned from 100 Episodes of My Podcast
Recently, I celebrated the 100th episode of my podcast, Let the Adventure Begin with Chris Denker. As I reflected on this accomplishment, I also thought about what I’ve learned so far on this adventure. Lessons I’ve learned so far. I’ve created, recorded, edited, produced, and promoted each episode for 100… Read more ⇢
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My Prayer Life
Writing a poem about prayer is hard I subscribe to The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad, and the prompt this week is intriguing to me for a variety of reasons. The prompt is to write a poem about prayer. There are various components to it, but that is the gist of… Read more ⇢
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Why Journaling Is Essential to Life
Reason #5 is the most important one. A lot of people I know don’t journal. They don’t understand it. They say it takes too much time. They say they don’t know what they would write about. If you’re in the same camp, let me convince you as to what you’ve… Read more ⇢
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Five Steps to Handling Failure
Because none of us escapes it “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” – Denis Waitley At times I struggle with failure.… Read more ⇢
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Why I’m Blogging Every Day Until I Retire
It’s probably not the reason you’re thinking “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” — Oscar Wilde This morning I read a piece from one of my favorite writers on Medium, Shaunta Grimes. I love how she has built an audience of readers and… Read more ⇢
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Take More Pauses in 2024
“Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you’re about to react harshly and you’ll avoid doing and saying things you’ll later regret.”― Lori Deschene As a middle school English teacher, we do a lot of writing and working through grammar to become better communicators,… Read more ⇢
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My first month without Target and Amazon
First installment in a 12-month series “If you buy what you don’t need, you steal from yourself.” –Swedish Proverb If you’re new here, welcome! At the end of December, I wrote a piece about why I was going to give up shopping at two behemoths as a result of the… Read more ⇢
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Biggest Challenge: Focus
I try to do the one word thing each year, but I honestly can’t remember what my word was in 2023, 2022, 2021…you get the idea. That made my word for 2024 more poignant (I think that’s the word I want): Focus. I’m a middle school English teacher by day,… Read more ⇢
Meet the writer, Christine Denker.
My stories offer a mix of relatable topics from someone who has been around the block a time or two.
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