I’ve said before that I have never been a girlie girl. At recess in elementary school, I was the girl who was playing kickball with the boys on the baseball field. Sports and games? Yes. Dolls and pretend crap with other girls? No. We always had big, Rockwellian Christmases growing up. We’d go to my […]
Your Daily Dose
You can have 18 ridiculous birthday parties. Or… you can go to college.
So what happened to actually making a kid wait for stuff? You know how I feel about birthday parties. A Chuck E. Cheese birthday party would have been a really big fucking deal for me when I was a kid. It is not a big deal for most kids now. It’s an expectation. When did […]
Talk about a dipstick…
Where, along the way, do we come to the conclusion that if we can’t do something without asking for help that we aren’t as smart as everyone else? Why do we feel embarrassed when we don’t understand something? When I was a teacher, I must have said show your work at least 25,000 times. But, […]
Honesty is not always the best policy.
A couple weeks ago I was offered a job. It was very part time. And the pay wasn’t great. But it was something. A little beacon of hope amidst the worst financial situation in which we’ve ever found ourselves. But then, before I got the chance to start, I was told the offer no longer […]
Just call me Colonel Smith.
For some reason, the kindergarten and first grade years are birthday party hell years. It’s probably because the kids haven’t started thinking that members of the opposite sex are gross yet. So if a kid has a party, he or she invites the whole class. Even if only half of the kids in the class […]
Join the club. No, really. Join the club.
Today is the first day of my e-course. I’m a little nervous. And really excited. I have 38 members from all over the country WORLD!!!! Yes. I have members in my first e-course from around the mother effing world. Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Alabama, Illinois, Nebraska, California, Canada , and, […]