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Volunteering in the school library the other day, I listened as two ten-year-old girls waited to check out.  Planning ahead, way ahead, they discussed Halloween costumes for next year.  "Hmmm. . .," says Audra.  "I'm going to be Rosa Parks."  With a firm head-nod, she turned to Emily and then quickly added, "Or candy corn."

Oh, the conflicts of

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It's October 26, about 4:30 p.m.  and I'm sitting in my Lazy Boy, feet up, laptop on.  I've had my sight set on this quiet, relaxing moment for, oh, weeks.  Keeping up with ICL assignments (or in the case of the past two weeks, NOT keeping up!) trying to get my novel ready to send out,  taking on a couple article assignments, one with lots of ( Read more... )

Time evaporates in summer.  Kids move in, kids move to new places, kids borrow cars.  Deadlines, extensions, deadlines.  LA conference, summer cookouts, family parties.  Kids move out, summer fades, time seeps back, I'm ready.

I'm feelng better today.  According to the Amazing Curves Work-out Calculator, I burned 386 calories this morning.  I stopped at McDonalds, and following advice given by

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 I've never been a coffee drinker.  I've tried to be a coffee drinker, several times in my life.  Like when I lived in the North Woods of Wisconsin, where winter lasts ten months (really!) and I had a thirty mile commute to work, but I could never acquire a taste for it.  When I stop in to visit my dad, he still offers me coffee, and when I refuse ( Read more... )

 Joining

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For people in my town, life has had its challenges lately.  With recent news that our GM plant will close and then the Rock River cresting and flooding the downtown area, I guess it's no wonder that this was big news on a sunny Saturday morning:


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