Another List

Today I went to a short professional development session on "Teaching Millenials." I was hoping for a few more practical tips, but the tips were limited to "use technology" and "provide opportunities for group projects and teamwork," ideas I'm aware of, although I don't incorporate them often. The presenter focused primarily on stereotypical characteristics of the Millenial generation and the three generations preceding. I noticed that he left out one characteristic that my generation, Gen X, shares with the Millenials - we like to make playlists as gifts.  There's a "Truly Pathetic Love Song" tape still floating around in our car (which has a tape deck), one of the first gifts I gave my husband, back in college when he was getting ready to go away for a year in Rome. (Proof of Memorex's enduring quality?) We'd only been dating a few months, so maybe it was a little bold of me to send him a bunch of sappy love songs, but then he made me one, too. Sweet!!When he went away this past spring to Afghanistan, I made another love song mix, this time from the Itunes songs we have. And now, because I'm trying to butter him up, here's a list of those songs. Some are from the original mix.

• In Your Eyes – Peter Gabriel
• You Are the Everything – REM
• Fall On Me –REM
• Strong Enough – Sheryl Crow
• I Shall Believe – Sheryl Crow
• Better than ice cream – Sarah McLachlan
• Don’t You Forget About Me – Simple Minds
• Joy – The Sundays
• All I Want is You – U2
• Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
• Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight – James Taylor
• How Sweet It Is – James Taylor
•  Follow Me – John Denver
• Walking ON Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves
• Stay – Lisa Loeb
• Anyone Else But You – Moldy Peaches
• Come Away With Me – Norah Jones
• Turn Me On – Norah Jones
• The Nearness of You – Norah Jones
•  Livin’ On Love – Alan Jackson
• Home - Alan Jackson
• I’d Love you All Over Again – Alan Jackson
• When You Say Nothing At All – Alison Krauss
• The Lucky One – Alison Krauss
• If I Had a Million Dollars – Barenaked Ladies
• She Talks To Angels – Black Crowes
• She’s Always a Woman – Billy Joel
• You’ve Made Me so Very Happy – Blood Sweat and Tears
• I’ll See you Soon – Coldplay
• Longer – Dan Fogelberg
• Crash Into Me – Dave Matthews
• Lover Lay Down – Dave Matthews
• Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
• More Than Words- Extreme
• Your Song – Ewan MacGregor
• We Make A Lot of Love – Harry Connick, Jr
• Better Together – Jack Johnson
• If I Could – Jack Johnson
• Banana Pancakes – Jack Johnson
• Do You Remember – Jack Johnson