Life and Stuff

Update: I thought that some Double Zout licorice would make me feel better. I was wrong. Note to self: stick with the sweet stuff.
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Awaken, shower, dress, drive to school. Enter classroom and begin preparing for students’ arrival.
Students arrive. Promptly run out of room to relieve nausea periodically for about 20 minutes.
Leave substitute […]

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People don’t ask me many questions that throw me for a loop. I’ve even gotten used to the knuckleballs that my students throw, because you know 13-year-olds will ask anything, appropriate or not. And, P.S., they expect an answer.
So today, I’m minding my own business, reading the Sunday paper, drinking my coffee. It’s […]

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There is a poem in the The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, entitled I Am Not a Man and written by Howard Norse. To enrich the study of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders , I gave it to the students as a graceful prompt to a discussion of gender stereotypes.
Note: I edited some words […]

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listening: mose allison, seventh son
Some jobs, you may as well be a spectre, haunting the office. You become “the guy by the copier” (Office Space). You make clicking noises, and leave coffee stains, in a cubicle. You dress in something called “business casual.” Is that like mullet hair? Business in the front, party in the […]

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Listening: David Wilcox, How Did You Find Me Here?
For the five-year anniversary of me and lionessden dot com, I thought it was time to do some spring-cleaning. To sweep out the archives, revisit the hundreds of old photographs, memories, travels…I’ve spent about two months re-reading my life.
And so.
Over the past year, my artistic leanings […]

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