Real Life and Other Randomness

My #Write30 topic of the day is to list my 3 pet peeves. There are many, but here are the first three I can think of: people who smack their...

I am fascinated by human behavior. There's nothing I love to do more than just watch people and try to decide who they are by how they ...

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I had a dream of being a writer. I kept diaries and journals full of bad poetry. I relished essay te...

I grew up in a really small town. Tiny, really. There were only two stoplights (there are still only two). My 1st grade classroom was only...

I coached at my junior high for 13 years, and if there's one thing I learned in all that time it's this: when the End Times arrive, ...

This was my writer's response topic for my classes last week. I gave it to them on the day I was assigning them to new seats and ne...

Sometimes writing is a celebration. The writer chooses a subject and holds it up to the light to inspect its beauty and paint it so with his...

I had a student once, just a couple of years ago.  Here's what I knew about him then: He didn't talk to me. He didn't even rea...

Today is Veteran's Day. While I am always thankful for the service of our troops and veterans, it's hard to celebrate only them toda...

I often joke about teaching or about my kids at school .  I sometimes even let my anger free flow and turn into a comical rage.  Things have...

Today is World Teachers' Day.  The fact that A) I didn't know this, and I'm a teacher and 2) it's on a Saturday is so frustr...

This week has been vaguely terrible, and it's caused a great deal of pain and doubt in my heart.  I hate that.   But this morning, ...

One of my Most Valuable Friends often posts about where she sees God.  They are, by far, some of my favorite posts ever. This was her post...

I let the worst of things get the best of me yesterday.  I came home and stewed and spit and sulked about it, and as you might guess, nothin...