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Today I made salted caramel chocolate chip cookies, and I scooped them out with a cookie scoop, cooled them on a cooling rack, and placed them in a pre-cut-parchment-lined cookie tin ( Read more... )

it was wonderful and perfect and beautiful and it's over. :-)

Once upon a time, a daycare center teacher sat at a table making cootie catchers for little boys and girls. A trio of little girls approached her. "Make me a cootie catcher! Make me a cootie catcher!" each girl said. So, the teacher did make cootie catchers for the first two little girls. As they went scampering off, the teacher said to the third ( Read more... )

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Mitsu flips a lot of coins. Katharine told me that once ( Read more... )

1. My student who I worked with on his admissions essay (twice) finally got into his dream school! So proud ( Read more... )

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Sometimes, being a teacher feels like balancing on a precarious rock in the midst of a vast ocean, jumping up and down, waving my arms, and yelling "I CARE!" really loudly, hoping that someone hears me, and cares back ( Read more... )

The last of the toenail polish is gone.