I am not a gardener. Let me just admit that right up front. Actually, I told on myself a while back so it’s really no secret. I have never had my own garden nor can I recognize a lot of plants or flowers unless that little tag is attached to one. My gardening skills are [...]
In the last few years I’ve been pretty quiet about family and what we are all up to and have kept my blogging to a minimum of posts that generally tend toward the education realm and the racism realm (not yet quite post-racial, Amurrica, are we?) so I know there are a few new readers [...]
What better way to start writing again then to drop some knowledge since it’s Black History Month? On this day in 1960 four Black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University staged a sit-in at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro. Men like this made it possible, through their peaceful demonstrations, for my [...]
Housekeeping 1. You may notice a newish ad over there on the side and that’s from the LG TextEd BlogHer Engagement Program that I’m participating in right now. It’s all about how parents deal with the issues that cell phone texting brings with it when coupled with the wonderfulness that is teenagedom. Basically, I am [...]
Dear 20-Something Kelly, Well, now those teen years have really seemed to bite you in the ass, haven’t they? Here you are with a couple of kids already and you’re still trying to enjoy and figure out your 20s. What’s done is done. We won’t try to backtrack now. Not only will it do you [...]
Last night we hosted an interesting little soiree. It was a going away/birthday party for one of the best friends I have ever had. I feel the need to emphasize this point by adding …in my life at the end of that sentence because Tammy is so very important in my life. She’s a fellow [...]
My sister has been at my house every weekend for the past three weeks. I’ve lived in my new house for three weeks. That right there is some serious sisterly dedication. The first weekend was to help me move, the second weekend was to attend Mason’s graduation, and this last weekend was to help me [...]
Mallory’s birthday this year came and went, for me, in a flash. A slow-moving, dragging out all day, must get a ton of stuff moved to my new house flash. If that’s how flashes work. She celebrated it with friends who came to visit from St. Louis and, while I called her early enough in [...]
Over the last few months my blog has been “discovered” by the locals. And boy, are they restless. By that I mean that they mention reading my blog when I see them. Some are old friends, acquaintances, co-workers, and parents of my students. Ever since our local newspaper mentioned my writing there are some new [...]
Not that kind of recycling. A different kind. This is a post that I started writing about four years ago. If you’re a reader who has been with me that long then this will be a familiar reading. If you’re new, welcome! So glad you could make it. The series of these posts was The [...]
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