You know, I never got Kindergarten just right. Part time with a pediatric specialist who wrote that I showed echolalic speech and drew grotesque figures for a child my age. In rooms where they asked me questions, in great white rooms where I was an it, a hamster, rather than a child at play. The… Continue reading Kindergarten was Nothing But Sparkles on Skin
Category: Education
What I Found Out
We want to know, but we don’t want to know.
Corrie’s Always there to Remind me
I crave to make her memory matter as time changes and continues. Because she stole the spotlight in my heart. Because she proved a unicorn does exist in heaven.
So, You want Life to be Normal Again
While my daughter lay dying with what I thought was a stomach bug just before her doctor's appointment, I gave feedback on five students' work when I wasn't going to work at all that day due to my daughter's illness.
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 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.
Thoughts on the American Revolution and Women
Everyone has different opinions about the Declaration of Independence just as ... they have different opinions about people's roles during the American Revolution. This has to do with two things: (1) the United States is trying to grow more diverse in all people's history during the American Revolution and (2) the history of the American… Continue reading Thoughts on the American Revolution and Women
Make Your Poetry Ugly Beautiful
Do what? Poetry. Who needs it? It does not sale in the market if you're looking to make money. For people who read, poetry seems to cause emotions almost as extreme as politics. They either like or they don't. My husband has hated poetry most of his life, but claims I am bringing him around… Continue reading Make Your Poetry Ugly Beautiful
God Left Green Street, a poem
I saw them gather at the church. I did not join them there. God left Green Street on a day in April when black-gray clouds intersected. A fight on the street, or in the school, the boy will meet you there because God grabbed his hat and coat. He left the kids of Green Street.… Continue reading God Left Green Street, a poem
A Better Place, a poem
"Get up and smile," someone says. "You're going to a better place." They say it like "All dogs go to heaven." Your best pet went to live on a farm upstate. The battles are over, The fires put out, Some think I'm crazy to compare a house of learning to the place where militia hide… Continue reading A Better Place, a poem