I should really be putting the finishing touches on a poetry test and making sure I know what the hell I’m teaching in less than an hour, but I promised a report on Friday’s “good thing,” and besides, I’d rather talk to the internet than work anyway. On Friday after dinner I filled up the bathtub, … More T-minus 14
Not counting today there are 15 school days remaining on my work calendar. I tried to post a nifty little ticker to commemorate the countdown, but it didn’t go over so well. So I thought I’d try something a little different. My mantra has always been a combination of “I can do anything for a … More Fifteen Beautiful Things, or “Please, please help me.”
I have finally caved and purchased Photoshop. I don’t understand Photoshop, really, but during my 30-day free trial I discovered a few cool features by accident, and I decided that with some instruction I could make excellent use of the program. Please, if you are a Photoshop user, explain your favorite features and how you … More In the market for a tutor
Mia received this in the mail last week, and while she’s worn part of it a few times already, I’ve just now gotten around to documenting it. I’m really disgusted with my digital camera, which seems to be capable of taking only blurry pictures indoors. While I’m sure it would perform better outside, it’s a … More Thank you, Trista, Kristin, and Julia!
My friend Steph is compiling a list of great things about being 30 for her sister-in-law, who is apparently freaking out about her upcoming thirtieth birthday. Since most of my readership is in the 30s range, I thought I’d enlist all of you to contribute to the list. Leave your “what’s great about being 30” … More thirtysomething
Due to the fire, our 9th and 10th grade students missed six regular school days and the 11th and 12th graders missed three. We are, of course, being required to make those days up because everyone knows if a child receives 174 days of instruction instead of 180, he or she will be scarred for … More Thanks
Friday, November 10th was not one of my better days. I had spent the week in chaotic staff meetings, at other schools, or in public places with wireless internet access, desperately trying to resume some semblance of normalcy in my professional life. It wasn’t going well. I was tired, and the images of what used … More The kindness of [people who aren’t really] strangers
It’s been boring here lately. Even I am bored with my blogging, or not blogging, whatever you want to call it. It would be easy for me to tell you that I’ve been quiet because I’ve been busy with work (which is true) and graduate school (also true), but I wouldn’t be telling you the … More Eh. You might as well know what kind of crazy you’re dealing with here.
Twenty years ago, on a clear blue day much like this one, I sat in a sunny social studies classroom at Central Junior High and stared raptly at a TV screen that mirrored the sky beyond the 10-foot windows just a few feet from my desk. I was ten years old, and my fellow 6th graders … More Looking skyward
I have known Joy for almost 20 years. She is the person I’ve known the longest outside my family, and I have known her in every stage of my life from age 11 to the present. She is a light, a life force, and a bearer of…well…joy. When I was younger I was lucky; I … More Joyful
one small corner of the universe 