In high school, we had a five minute passing period to get from class to class. This seems like a reasonable amount of time, but we were always late. “We,” being the almost 2,000 high schoolers that made up Oak Park and River Forest High Schoool. We are the Huskies! And we are always late! So the administration decided that… View Post

I am to tell you good work, congratulations, and good luck in high school, and I will tell you these things, but first I want to tell you a secret: I had no plans to teach this year. All my lesson plans and “how to teach” books, everything I learned about teaching in college had all been thrown away years… View Post

  {Sat} on the Metro going towards Farragut to watch this year’s Listen To Your Mother performance.  Nothin’ wrong with a Metro ride into the city. That’s what I always say. The performances were fantastic. There’s something special and brave about getting dressed up and telling and listening to stories. I wished I could’ve talked to each of the cast… View Post

The plan was to go fishing at Black Hills Regional Park, so I kept my camera close by because two girls who fish with princess fishing poles seemed like a good beginning to a story. I snapped photos and listened to Hadley and Harper while constructing a possible blog post. But the fish weren’t biting. It was one of the… View Post

Let’s just say it wasn’t all that bad.* The cake, that is. I made it on a Thursday evening a few weeks back. It’s a lemon-cornmeal cake but there’s also 1 and 1/2 cups of chopped almonds so I don’t know why it’s not called “Lemon-Almond-Cornmeal Cake.” I guess you can’t fit everything into a title. Besides, it’s good to… View Post