I wrote some meaningful poems during that time. I wrote some crappy, thirteen-year-old blow your nose in notebook paper poems.
Month: May 2020
Pimping Out My Mac and Cheese
My daughter wants to pimp out my Mac and cheese. It’s creamy with the heavy cream and it’s three cheese. She says I can visit my students house to house, and give out my Mac and cheese. I’m a louse for not going house to house like the teachers you see on TV. I don’t… Continue reading Pimping Out My Mac and Cheese
The Thing about Memorial Day
During Coronavirus, I have admired the different steps people have taken to show kindness when I thought it was going the way of the dinosaurs. Just as my son with autism believes dinosaurs will make a come back, kindness has made a small comeback. We need, as a society, to take kindness to the next… Continue reading The Thing about Memorial Day
Things Every Teacher Needs to Hear
From my education blog that I started in January, I have a word or more about things teachers need to hear now. via Things Every Teacher Needs to Hear
The Plot is in the Poem
Let's talk about Lucy. I have a lot to say about this book, so there will be more than one post. While everyone else is discussing our boy Coriolanus Snow in their reviews, I want to write about Suzanne Collins's character, Lucy Gray Baird. I got the book, the Kindle version, and audible. The old… Continue reading The Plot is in the Poem
Busting Up the Brick in the Wall
Because as exhausting as my list of social cue questions is for me, imagine how many people there are who feel that way.
The Only Place I Ever Felt Normal
She was a touchstone for the last time I felt safe before I entered what would lead to an almost photographic memory of torture in middle school.
The Evolution of a Writer
I'm fine with writing though because it doesn't lie to your face or just disappear.
Corrie's Season 