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Yeah, I’m not going to Cancun and winding up on “Teachers Go Wild” so don’t get too excited.  In fact, it is going to be one of those stay-cations, where I spend it catching up with neglected stuff.  I love … Continue reading →

And so we begin again- the 2013 fifth-grade ballroom dance team has been chosen.  After hours, days, weeks of after-school practices and lunchtime tryouts, fifty boys and girls sat in a crowded classroom on Friday afternoon to await the announcement- … Continue reading →

And big ones too-life is full of them.  We make mistakes and the repercussions ripple on like the stone thrown in the lake;  sometimes for years and sometimes affecting lots of other people.  We make choices and follow paths, and … Continue reading →

On this frigid, snow-covered Sunday morning, I’m singing the praises of ice cream. Yes, ice cream.  Even though I am sitting in front of a roaring fire in the fireplace eating steaming oatmeal, what is on my mind this morning … Continue reading →

So I kept trying to settle in and write a blog entry over the last two weeks.   Every time I did, something came up.  The weather (good and bad-skiing and ice storms; 60 degrees and flooding), the grad course I’m … Continue reading →

This morning we are heading up to Massachusetts for our first skiing of the season.  I can hardly contain myself as I imagine where I will be in just a few short hours.  I learned to ski at the age … Continue reading →

I teach kindergarten. Little kids running all over the place soaking up new ideas, concepts, skills of all kinds. It’s great. But I also teach graduate school as an adjunct professor at a small private college. The program is designed … Continue reading →

Over the holidays, the kids were home and it was such a great time.  I honestly cannot name one specific thing we did that was so much fun it stands out.  Just being all together in the house at the … Continue reading →

I love giving presents to people. I do! To me the look on someone’s face when they open my gift is worth the pain of searching for it or the time to make it. I’m not the type to pick … Continue reading →

…the night before the night before ChristmasAnd all around townI drove like a madwoman,knocking my list down.The bank for some business-some give and some take,The grocery store for ingredients for recipes to make.The wine store to pick upall that good … Continue reading →