I was joking the other day about how much I've grown to like my little belly. I mean, sometimes I cup my hand around it, pat it, caress it, even sing to it. I'm not sure it's ever gonna disappear, and so I've decided we might as well be friends. It's my own little Six Pack--in rolls. Well, it's not that bad. Now I'm not saying I'm gonna be one ( Read more... )

You say to me, "But I have to prepare the kids for the real world, where things aren't always fair."

And I'm thinking, Since when did two wrongs make a mf-ing right?

( Soapbox Educational Rant #1 )

She said, "I have better things to do with my time than spend this much of it worrying about and working with a kid who just doesn't care."

I said, "What could possibly be better?"

And therein lies the difference.

I will get up on my soapbox and BELLOW ... once I get my 2nd quarter grades turned in :)

And so now I'm tutoring a kid whose position paper is anti-abortion in any circumstance. I read his opening paragraph, and my only response was "You're young, and you're a man. Tell me how you feel in ten years." Ugh, accept money to help a kid effectively argue what I do NOT believe in? Yeah, it's really no big deal ... I just don't wanna!

I've heard it said that people fit some places over others. Or maybe it's that places fit people. The Shenandoah River and the Appalachians are my backbone and spinal cord, but the Pacific Northwest still takes my breath away. One of my favorite trips of the past two years was the drive on the Pacific Coast Highway from San Diego to the tip of ( Read more... )

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My baby tooth finally decided to give up its ghost ( Read more... )

Last night I left the New Year's Party/Concert with a friend of a friend ... yes, a male. We both were awake and felt like continuing the evening, but it was late enough that we had to go down into the city, not necessarily a bad thing. I was sitting at a barstool and he was standing and I could have sworn he was intentionally rubbing his you- ( Read more... )

I went to the Redskins-Bengals game a couple of weeks ago with a friend of mine and the parents of a former student. The dad made the best damned Bloody Mary ever--so good, in fact, that I've honestly been thinking about those bloody marys ever since ( Read more... )

OH MY GOD!!! I just got excellent customer service from Verizon. I mean, really ... truly excellent service.