Real Life and Other Randomness

Today is my dad's birthday. And since he loved to laugh, I'm going to tell a funny story. Even better, I'm going to tell a stor...

So... I love my job. I do. But like with any job, there are things you have to do that, frankly, you just don't wanna.  One of those suc...

Yesterday, my students were taking a quiz in class. I sat at my desk, responding to an email. Typically, students hear the typing of compute...

In my classroom, I try to follow just a few guidelines every day: 1. Don't speak in anger. 2. Never shy away from a teachable mome...

Every 12 year old I know has only two sworn enemies: body odor and combination locks.  Both seem to mystify and confound even my smartest st...

There aren't many things that make me smile/laugh/swoon more than Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake dancing.  Silly is sexy, y'all....

I spent the day with some really great teachers, and I loved it.  Their enthusiasm is the right kind of contagious.  And then I met some inc...

I am the baby of my family.  I have two older brothers, and I have a mom and dad who don't believe in "letting" you win, even ...

It's late.  Really late.  So you'll have to pardon the shortness of this post. I went to the Rangers game tonight.  One of my best...

I woke up this morning, and I felt like a garbage truck used my head as a speed bump.  Then it backed up and poured hot garbage juice on me....

Remember when I confessed to y'all that I'd never been to the ocean? Well, check that one off the bucket list.  Sort of.  I guess...

I... Am... Alive.  I swear.  For the tens of you keeping up with me via the interwebs, take your fingers off the 9. I'm here.  I am ...

When you're about to be away from the real world for the summer, it's important to get some quality time with the funniest people yo...

Law and Order: Special Victims Unit is the favorite show of one of my best friends. She swears that it's the best of the L&O franch...

I spent the weekend in what I've come to admit as the "Number 1 Way I Should Not Recoup". I came home Friday night, laid down...

My 8th period class is what I call "The Dirty South". The majority of my kids do not hail from Texas but rather Louisiana, Missis...