I always think I’m going to get a ton of work done on the weekends and I never do. I think about doing work. I even plan to do work. I’ll tell Jesse, “I need to work.” I’ll pack my bag full with notebooks and pens and books to read and mark up. I’ll leave the house and go to… View Post
Like Chocolate and Vanilla Swirl
Here’s a picture of Hadley and Harper about five minutes before they went to school Monday morning. About fifteen minutes before this picture was taken they were having a contest to see who could throw her underpants and hit the ceiling first. I clean the breakfast dishes up during the contest. Yes, it is a daily thing – the underpants… View Post
The Cheetah
Last week Hadley went on a field trip to the zoo with her class. For weeks, they had been researching an animal of their choosing; reading books, going to the computer lab, drawing pictures, all rather impressive things for Kindergartners to do, I’d say. Last week, they roamed the zoo to see the real, live thing. Hadley searched for the cheetah. On… View Post
Joan Didion and Pterodactyls
I am reading “The Women’s Movement,” an essay in The White Album by Joan Didion. The year the essay was written marks the end of each piece in the book and I think that would be cool to write a book full of essays and end each with the year I wrote them. I am thinking this at 6:30 in… View Post
Play Ball!
Here’s a little story for baseball season. I hope you don’t mind my re-posting. I wrote this a while back for the Red Dress Club. The prompt was, “Somebody gets hurt. Somebody tells a joke.” Every summer the Little League teams in the Chicago suburbs were invited to Comiskey Park for “Little League Night” (at least, that’s what I’m calling… View Post
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