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...

I’m thirty-twenty-two years old. That somehow sounds better than “52.” Or maybe that just makes it sound like I’m seriously math impaired. W...

 I was talking to my sister on the phone today and we were commiserating like we often do.  "I've had this whole summer to write an...

Remember at the start of Covid, when kids around the country were having to do school from home, and frazzled parents everywhere said, ...

I know I've kinda dropped off the face of the earth. I was getting so annoyed by everyone and everything that I had to step back from al...

Having lived down here in Florida for the past 10 years, I've come to learn that hurricane preparedness to a Floridian means something e...

This weekend, I learned something about cats and an item that is absolutely toxic to them. I feel the need to use this platform to warn othe...