Last year, a kindergarten student in Nina’s school passed away as a result of complications from a tonsillectomy. As you might imagine, our entire community responded with rightful shock and horror, and now every time a child is slated for this procedure, parents join their offspring in maintaining a stiff upper lip, moving through the [...]
It’s never a straight line. It isn’t linear. And it never matters what it is I am learning about.
Learning curves.
Why do you blog? Why do you read the blogs that you do?
This is what I’ve been thinking about all week. The question was prompted by Heather Armstrong’s now infamous exchange with Kathie Lee Gifford a [...]
She sent me this email last week:
“Virginia was beautiful! The weather wasn’t as warm as I expected it to be, but we were able to swim in the ocean one day. Of course, that was the day that I nearly drown, but it was still a beautiful day.”
I skimmed through the rest of her message, [...]
When I was in fifth grade, my parents finally relented and allowed me to drop out of Catholic school. Suddenly, my wardrobe expanded. I made a few new friends. Every morning, a massive school bus pulled up in front of my home, and I got on. Walking to school through rain and snow was a thing of [...]
Tonight, I took my eleven year old daughter to her middle school orientation.
The halls were cavernous. Stark. Empty.
The “welcome address” was an overview of how grades are assigned and what kind of clothing can and cannot be worn to class.
The English classroom didn’t have any books in it. It did, however, house a chalkboard that [...]