When I began writing MINOR DRAMAS & OTHER CATASTROPHES, I was in my fifteenth year of classroom teaching, a job…
Tag: high school
Unexpected friendships are, to me, something of an adult phenomenon. As kids, we see potential friendships everywhere – from people…
I loathed everything about Emmett Woodshanks (not his real name — his real name was far less Dickensian. He also…
(This week’s theme is “Back to School.” I never was much of a first day of school junkie, so I…
I’ve written several posts about my amazing, wonderful mother, which you can read here, here and here. So, for a…
I’ve never really been scared of things that go bump in the night. Sure, when I was little, I had…
Well, I thought I’d covered “learning the hard way” last week and that this week I’d write something short and…
The way I read is similar to the way I eat: sporadic, thoroughly disorganized, and just as likely to occur…
I like to tell myself that I didn’t commit any crimes, that the things I did fell more into the…
I have never reached an orgasm from washing my hair in the way that the commercials promise me. Never. Not…
