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

Like many of the important things in my life, Jane Austen is something I learned from my sister. Unlike Lip Smackers, New Kids on the Block...

I'm not going to do a New Year Resolutions post. I'm certainly not going to put in writing that I intend to blog more in 2010 – thou...

Apparently I read books by Courtney Summers before parent-teacher conferences. This was never something I planned, but I read Cracked Up To ...

I fell during my run today. One stride I was rushing forward, chattering to St. Matt about an amazing book I'd read yesterday and admiri...

It feels weird not to check Twitter before bed . This the tweet I almost posted last night – before I remembered that in order to do s...

I was driving by myself to meet friends after school one day this week. As I neared a normally-busy intersection, I was startled to realize ...

In class last week, I showed the kiddos this video*. When it was over and the giggles subsided, I asked them why they thought I'd shown ...

Each year room 202 has a defining moment. It's the instant the kiddos change from a rag-tag group of individuals who happen to have the ...

Technically the summer's been over for a few weeks now; I just haven't wanted to admit it. I ignored Labor Day. I overlooked the ...

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...

8) Camping has lots of STUFF you can buy. I kinda like this part of camping. Okay, I really like this part of camping. Along with all new ...

7) The Language of the River. I spent a good part of the trip having no idea what anyone was talking about. This glossary should be about ...

Doesn’t our underwater camera look cool? I posed and hammed it up for all sorts of FEARLESS shots – I only learned to row the boat so that ...

I've been battling the End-of-the-Summer Plague (the doctor says it's a respiratory infection, I still think I'm allergic to the...

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” - Dr. Seuss I was talking to another teacher yesterday and he was telling ...

You know the moving walkways at airports? And how if you walk against the motor, you make no progress? Welcome to my day. It started when I...

6) Just because it’s camping and there aren’t bubble baths doesn’t mean I couldn’t bring the pampering. Not only did I do my own hair, but I...

4) When things go wrong on the river, they go wrong fast and they go really wrong. This is an unedited excerpt from a hasty entry in my wate...

Fearless doesn’t mean without fear . Okay, technically it does, but for the purpose of Fearless Summer it means acknowledging that somethi...

Like my stripe-y sunburn? The shoes that caused it... (though mine are lighter pink) photo credit ...Also, pedicures are no match for camp...