Fall Hugs

I didn't expect it. A phone call, twice, from my husband, John, today while I was grocery shopping.  I was in the checkout line and have...

I am pretty sure that I am borderline OCD. I have this thing about things being neat. All the time. I am unable to go to sleep if the kitc...

Today I am tired. Not tired because I stayed up too late or tired because one kid had a nightmare in the middle of the night, and I found ...

Here they are the words I want to say but won't come out because they are trapped in my head Maybe they are waiting for another d...

Today I had my students imitate William Carlos Williams' poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" during Sacred Writing Time. They speak for...

I started reading my students Love That Dog  by Sharon Creech today. If you are not familiar with it, the book is written in poetry form fol...

I keep staring at my list of things to do that is kept on a small yellow sticky note. I am not sure how I haven't lost this piece of pap...