Summer…even if you haven’t been a student in many, many years, this season makes us all want to loosen the schedule a bit. And teachers – heck, we make time off a priority. We try not to go more than four weeks without at least a three-day break. (And if you truly remember high school, you’ll know this is a … Read More
Anywhere a Mouse Can Go
The one about grammar and rodents… In our part of the country, middle school students are taught the trick for identifying prepositions: anywhere a mouse can go. For example: a mouse can go inside your closet and induce your wrath by leaving his mousey mark on stacks of folded blankets and clothing a mouse can go around the live trap … Read More
Libras Do It With Balance
Source: Cheri3380346 (among others) This ecard pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? But I still wanna write about it. So here goes. Sometimes I wish I were back in the 50s. No, not really, but I would be a lot less busy. Women today juggle full-time jobs outside or inside of the home, plus we tend to take on a majority … Read More
Momma loves you. Now go play.
I remember being around eight, which means my sister was just past two. Our house was on the long edge of a racetrack-shaped subdivision: the loop. Man-O-War, to be exact, just like the racehorse. And every morning my mother would run this loop a dozen times or more. My sister and I would sit in the bay window seat overlooking … Read More