One of my favorite pastimes is putting a wide array of random items in my Amazon shopping cart knowing full well I will never actually purch...

It's testing season here in Florida which means students have to spend many days following a block schedule and staying in the same clas...

When you're young, you hurt yourself when you do something like skateboard down a hill, or jump over a parking meter, or fall from a bun...

People often ask me what my kids are up to these days. I started this blog over 16 years ago. It's hard to believe so much time has pass...

Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! I lay awake, berating myself for eating half a Pepperidge Farm coconut cake. You know, those frozen cakes that serv...

I have thick, coarse hair. I always have. When I was a kid, my mom kept my hair short. I looked like a boy - a boy in cute little smocked-to...

I've worked in a middle school since 2011, and these kids have taught me as much as I've taught them over the years. They've tau...

We had school-wide testing yesterday in my district. As a test administrator, it's my job to ensure test security while administering th...

When my oldest son told me that he and his wife were expecting their first child, I could hardly contain my excitement and anticipation. I h...