Life and Stuff

The first three days were awful. Really, really horrible. Call A&E “Intervention” bad. For those three days, my IQ was down at least thirty points, I was forgetting my students’ names, I drove the wrong way to school, and the headache…oy, the headache.
I really didn’t think I’d pull out of it without at least a […]

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Yeah, so if you’re looking for me or my writer friends this year in November, we’re doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month.) I’ve done it before, and am embarking on a second year with my eighth graders on the project. How cool is that? I get one period a day for a month to WRITE […]

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This is my first-ever handwritten blog entry, Viva the Fly Fusion Pentop Computer, baby.., no more lugging around a laptop. Not necessary to sit at at a desktop (until I decide to upload.) Nope, today is the organic-salad-in-front-of-Whole-Foods entry.
I haven’t even begun to tap into this thing’s full capabilities, but so far, I’ve been noodling […]

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Hilarious. You know, if it weren’t just flat sad. “Over the past three years, 13,000 Americans were treated in an emergency room or a doctor’s office for yoga-related injuries, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.” How are these doctors keeping a straight face? Calories burned during yoga = equal to three oreos.
Time Magazine’s, “When […]

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I used to think that people reached some magical age or milestone in which self-awareness gently crawled under their pillow, leaving wisdom a-la the tooth fairy. But, like many other assumptions I’ve made about People In General (PIG,) I would be wrong about that.
If you’ve hung around here for awhile, you know that I’m generally […]

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