Dont have much time, but a lot to talk about. This will remind me that I have writing as one of my new years resolutions.... did you all miss me?

Woke up this morning... which is how many a good blues song starts. Its a good introduction because, if you ain't woke up this mornin', you ain't making no blues song now, are you? You done been fixin' to die (a good reason to sing the blues) and you done went and did it. Ain't no blues, just a shallow grave next to Big Sadie and Boxcar Bill in the ( Read more... )

It is, isn't it? A brand new year. I'm sorting through the general resolutions that I made last year and this year to make a judgement as to whether I succeded or not. I don't think I did too badly ( Read more... )

I made it through the week and one is left to go before the holidays. Had a girl this week who a lot of 8th graders wanted to jump. I refered it to the administrator who yelled at me and told me to call all of the parents. "I will need their numbers then, they arent my kids." "Hummph. Well you teachers need to do something!" she said. I just ( Read more... )

I keep it vanilla on Facebook... but there are some things about work ( Read more... )

Ive been haunting Facebook (I tell my kids it's "My Face" and they figure that I am too old to know anything and dont look me up) and so I havent had a chance to put down more than a few charecters. Mark Twain once wrote to a friend "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" so it may not be a bad thing for my craft ( Read more... )

I asked someone to be a muse not long ago and that didn't work. You can't buy a muse, they have to come out of the unexpected. Anyway, writers write and if I want to give myself the title of journeyman poet, I guess I have to write something. I started thinking about portraits of strangers.. random encounters that leave an impression. I have two in ( Read more... )

I've made it another "Most of a Year" and now it's time to wind down. The Transfer Faire is on Thursday and it is there that I will slip my request in to move to High School. Wish me luck. 8 years in the middle is plenty enough, even if it is cleaning my Karma.

It looks like we are getting a Dog. She is a Black Lab Mix (a mix of some pointy type of dog) very pretty and very well mannered. We will fix that I am certain ( Read more... )

My Mom passed away a year ago Thursday. I still miss her. I was feeling a bit guilty about missing the anniversary. I thought about her every day this week except Thursday. Maybe it's appropriate. She decided to go at a moments notice, even though she waited 6 months to get there. It's hard to explain. It was her way of doing things. I suppose I ( Read more... )