I’ve been deeply interested in the posting and responses to Dana’s piece over at BlogHer and spent much of the weekend returning to the site to see concluding reactions. I left my own response to it and won’t share it all right here, but I am genuinely interested in those “questions” I mentioned. What ARE [...]
While I haven’t devoted an entire post to what I do in my position, I realize this differs from place to place so I can only sum up easily by stating that I take care of the academic needs of students with regard to classes, interventions as a support for them, and finding ways to [...]
It is a truth easily identifiable that Education is a difficult place to be. Especially now with political correctness, impossible NCLB standards, and children who learn so differently that it’s easy to blame technology for all those ills. Let me be plain before I explain further in my story: they learn differently, but we are [...]
To her benefit, my daughter is quite neat and tidy about her apartment space. But when I got there on Sunday afternoon and the hot, hot sun (are you singing how bizarre! how bizarre! now?) came crashing through the windows I noticed a rather disgusting sight: her toilet bowl. It was the college mom in [...]
Before jumping in to my post about my very-much-needed weekend with my girlfriends, I pause here to celebrate the genius that is Tina Fey and 30 Rock: Jack (Head of Network): Let me ask you a question, Kenneth. If Mr. Bright here told you to vote Republican, would you do it? Kenneth (The NBC Page): [...]
My Sweet Pea, My Precious Precocious Baby Girl, My Offspring That I Spit Out In Her Mother’s Image had her big Senior Project show on Friday. It was a culmination of four years of work. She did tremendous work and most of that evening was spent with me bending over and picking up pieces of [...]
After all that cathartic writing last week I was ready for some serious release. Unfortunately, I’m experiencing sinus problems that have me considering the following: 1) Taking a fistful of benzodiazepines. OR 2) Drilling two holes in the side of my head at the temples OR 3) Entrusting a large, muscular bodybuilder to squeeze my [...]
When a 5.4 earthquake hits the Midwest, it will freak our shit out. Honestly, I can remember the two earthquakes I’ve felt in my life and no one would believe they were both in Illinois. I have only myself to blame for the second one because I was bad-mouthing Mother Nature yesterday. The first was [...]
To say I’m apprehensive about publishing this letter is true so I won’t try to justify it. I’ll just do it knowing that it all came from a place of hurt where a wound was left. And I will hope that, like my daughter told me, there is healing in it not just for me, [...]
April is letter writing month for NaBloPoMo and even though I’m not participating in the event I am taking the time to write some letters. It is such a cathartic practice and a lost art. When I was a little girl I had such a great letter-writing practice with my grandmother. She has curly pretty [...]
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