“I do not understand my mom,Why is that, you suppose?I ask her if we can go out to eat,and she says, “I like your clothes.” My brother asked her for a car, She said, “I like your smile.”He said, “I do to, and thank you, mom,”And that’s all they said for a while. My sister… Read More

Okay, I admit it. I really don’t have anything pithy to say along those lines–but I was teaching Dickinson today as sort of a reward to myself for not strangling any students so far in the year, and I had an epiphany. (No, it was not that all of Dickinson’s poetry seems to sing well… Read More

1. Chris sent me this link. I like it, Alot, I really really do! 2. I whapped a student on his big noggin today. He deserved it. I was standing up in front of class, and heard a conversation near my desk (where no students are supposed to be ever.) And there’s This Kid who… Read More

Okay… the first part of this is a bit, shall we say, scatological… if you have a problem with that, skip down, where things get a little more Freudian. I got home from grocery shopping to the following conversation: Mate: “So, Zoomboy went to the bathroom, and you know what he said?” Me: “Do NOT… Read More

Honestly, there’s nothing to report. N.O.T.H.I.N.G. I’m almost done editing Vulnerable. Huzzah! It hasn’t taken very long… I mean, SERIOUSLY–with the exception of the novellas I’ve been writing, it’s the shortest full length piece I’ve written. I mean… DAMN. My internet was dead for much of today… sort of a bummer, since, not only was… Read More

It’s funny– I know that some of us write to preserve memories of our families, friends, or pets (Chaos… I know you’re out there… and Mayhem, Sekhmet, Pepper, LuLu and Havoc too…) It’s true–these blogs really DO serve as time capsules–I know every time I put a conversation from my family on here, that it’s… Read More

But I figure you all knew where I was. Yeah– sometimes life really DOES trump blogging–not often, I’ll grant you, but when it happens, well, it’s best just to let it. On Friday night, I got home from work completely wiped out. I mean… just… braindead and destroyed. More ready for a break than I… Read More

You guys know when you’re driving, and your empty light starts flashing? You can usually count on what I call ‘the bounce’–‘the bounce’ is when it LOOKS like empty, but suddenly you have an extra eighth a tank to get you where you were going. Like most teachers, I hit ‘the bounce’ in the week… Read More

I knew this young man. When he was in my Advanced Placement class, he was good natured–but highly skeptical about the whole ‘writing an essay every week’ bullshit, and he told me so. He also came by every year afterward to thank me for it because he said it saved his bacon when he went… Read More

OKay– I must have totally maxed out my potential to work, because I not only skipped a day blogging, but I completely spaced some other obligations that I committed to this weekend. pbblllbbtttt… who needs ’em! (Okay–I say that? Truth to tell, we all know I’m going to be up at whee-hoo in the morning,… Read More