Letters, Words, Thoughts, Ideas, Stories...

I am writing. My mother-in-law is watching the twins and I am writing. I'm writing out of my house. Out of my pajamas. And without o...

There's someone I'd like you to meet. I can thank my good buddies at tech support, faux-James and faux-Jordan , for her appearance i...

There’s a scene in Alice in Wonderland where the White Rabbit oversees the playing cards as they frantically paint tulips. Yes, paint them...

I’m not naturally an unhappy person. Naturally I’m a please-keep-her-away-from-sugar-because-she’s-already-overly-effusive person. But I don...

Were you good at maintaining a post-break-up cooling off period? If you had a spat with a friend and she hung up on you, did you wait for he...

On Twitter today I noticed this acronym: IRL. At first I thought it was a typo for URL, and then using my best teacherly context clues, I d...

When I pictured the Distraction Fairy – which I frequently do while being distracted – I always pictured a her. And she had a pointy chin an...

I’m strict about few teacher-ly things. One of these is an orderly line in the hallways. In fact, I’m very particular about my lines – they’...

I have RMS. It’s a second-cousin of Restless Legs Syndrome. This one is Restless ME Syndrome and it has one cause: forced separation from my...

The writing forces are against me today. It’s like distraction-faries have taken residence in my house. Not only are there the typical distr...