Life and Stuff

…or any rising ninth-grader looking for that all-important ninth grade or high school reading list.
You guys just kill me. Here it is, summertime, the weather has been just delish…and y’all are e-mailing me to get reading lists so you can get a jump on high school.
I am so proud of you!
Lug and I just returned […]

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So I’ve got my real ‘puter set up with the swanky new monitor in the cozy new den, in the [mostly] moved-in house, and I ain’t playing when I say I’m spending some serious time on the site. In my endless quest for brain stuffing, this summer will be spent doing the following:

Continuing to […]

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Yeah, don’t give up on me yet. The cable guy can’t make it to the house until Monday, so I’m on borrowed wi-fi until then. And my home computer is the one with all the fancy wing-dings that allow me to cool up the photos and post them.
Sunburn is pretty much gone. Now me and […]

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Yuh-huh! I said Atlantis! The relaxing and fabulous and sunny Bahamian resort! We are here.
It’s probably a good thing we skedaddle tomorrow. The bottoms of my feet are sunburned,  much like my back and my knees. It was the most fun I’ve ever had getting completely broiled, though. Those people who wrote “SPF 30, WATERPROOF […]

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…you have appeared in the “25 Years Ago” section of your childhood’s newspaper.
Here’s the blurb that made made me about fall out of my chair. If you’re wondering how I found it, we were doing our poetry unit last month, and the students found it during their adventures in Googling Ms. Holzer. (Note to self, […]

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