Cancer has touched the lives of too many people in my life. You could say it’s the creeper neighbor of the medical world, and it needs to stay the hell away from the people I love. A week ago, we found out that Austin’s Uncle Ron has a brain tumor. He’d been having headaches since … [Read more…]
Just checking in for a minute to share my new class motto, courtesy of the awesomest of them all, Mr. Wil Wheaton: “Be Honest, Be Kind, Be Honorable, Work Hard, and Always Be Awesome.” See his post here. This is totally going on my syllabus, in the section on expected behavior. I really want to … [Read more…]
Okay, so it’s not morning anymore. Still, I thought this day needed a little poetry action. My choice: Joe Wilkins’s “Then I Packed You Up the Ridge Like a Brother on My Back.” It’s the featured poem today over at Poetry Daily. I am not a hunter. I have nothing against those who are, so long as … [Read more…]
My mother has impossibly perfect handwriting – small, uniform, and neat. I could never forge her signature on bad report cards. She was an absolute stickler for good handwriting, and when I was a child, my sloppy letters must have irked her supremely. She’d hover over my shoulder, remonstrating me for my illegible sentences and making me … [Read more…]