Real Life and Other Randomness

Every year about this time, my students create an "I Am" poem. It's a skeleton poem with a defined structure, so everyone'...

Last week, someone alerted me that the documentary, Pearl Jam Twenty, would be on VH1 Classic. As it was beginning at 9:30 PM, on a Wednesda...

I have a young man in my class this year who might just be the hardest-working man in the 7th grade. He is, for lack of better words, just a...

There is a 20 pound cat on my chest. I lay on the couch, and this is where she curls up. On my chest. It is nonsensical. She is a cat. I...

If there were one defining phrase to describe my mother, it would be "eye on the ball".  I've watched her hit screaming liners...

My 7th period class came in today, and they were so unbelievably, alarmingly quiet. Sober, subdued, and silent. Although there are only 11 o...

When I was 16, my mom bought me my first car. It was not the "big red bow across a shiny new BMW" moment that you see on commercia...