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Every Easter, the same story is told. Yet every year, despite myself, I see something new. Sometimes I'm pretty sure it slaps me across the face: Source: RossRightAngle So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.” And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!” Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified. There's a reason those words stuck out to me, so let me rewind. I work with what I generally refer to as a "group of wily fifth graders" in an after school childcare center. Unless you work closely with ten year olds, there's no way to understand: 1) How funny they are, 2) How irrational they can be, 3) How much they lack the big picture of... mostly anything. A good portion of my education has been centered in child develo...

I'm often confused by things that are apparently normal in life. Here are three random things that confuse me: Copyright... Me. 1. Beaches. When I was five I told my grandma, "I love the beach. All except the sand." To this day I prefer to wear tennis shoes to the beach so that I don't lose any appendages on the way down the fire-hot sand. Plus, your reward for making it to the water is a freezing cold swim and an inevitable sunburn (at least for a white girl like me). Most people are saying, "I can't wait for summer so we can go to the beach and have fun!" And I'm over here thinking, "Well, I guess it's time again to practice for the beach by walking barefoot over hot coals." I just don't understand it. But I will say this for beaches: they are beautiful. Copyright: Dallas News 2. Malls on a Saturday. What is the appeal of crushing crowds and pushy salesmen? One day recently I went to go see a movie - on a Sat...