Practice is sometimes better than theory

The last 8 years of my adult life, while in school (teaching or learning) or at home trying to get a stubborn machine to work, I’ve learned that practice makes perfect, while theory just confuses the hell out of us sometimes. While I used my awesome stovetop espresso maker to make myself some coffee, to sit down and write this, I remembered Christmas of 2008 in Barcelona and how I received this amazing espresso maker from a friend. It took me forever to learn how much water to put in there, the right quantity of coffee  and the level of heat I should give it to receive a tasty, fresh and get it to somewhat taste like espresso.  However, it mission was accomplished and all by practice. Yes, I realize I’ve wasted a few cups here and there, but learned. I can’t negate that I am a huge lover of theory and have tried to read instructions and although they were helpful, they just weren’t as helpful, since the instructions online or on a piece of paper, just didn’t know how I like to take my coffee. So why do I dwell so much on this subject. I woke up this morning thinking, today is going to be the day I learn everything I need to about wordpress and blogging. Ya right! I had so many windows open. Some defining blogrolls, some CSS, tags, categories, blog optimization, etc, etc, etc….At the end my computer  decided to freeze (yes, my MACBOOK, froze), just like my brain did, I guess. That is when I decided that I should fall back to my old mantra that not everything is learned through books, but in fact, by trying. I usually try to lead my classes in this manner, make kids come to important conclusions or new points of references so why not follow what I preach. So from now on, I’ve decided that I will unload all my thoughts and try to categorize them as well as I can, and the rest I’ll let it fall into place, one day at a time. So with that, let the blogging begin…