Life with puppy. It’s riding the old emotional roller coaster, that’s for sure. When we left him for the first time in the crate on Sunday, we weren’t gone for more than 30 minutes, but came back to find he’d pooped in the crate, even though he had pooped outside that morning. So when we [...]
Turned in my final paper today. Since September, the only writing I’ve been able to do is for CST 600, the first course in the Masters program in Communication at UNCG. It’s been all reading, writing and research. And you know what? I’ve loved every minute of it. Going back to school has been the [...]
I was putting Camille to bed last night, and she smiled at me and said, “I wish you could see the world inside my head.” Wow, I thought. I wish I could, too. “What it’s like?” I asked. “Is it a nice place?” “Oh, yes,” she said. “There’s peppermint! And Mommy. And Daddy. And Abby.” [...]
A colleague at work passed this along. I laughed so hard, I cried. And I still can’t pick a favorite: Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the [...]
Camille: “Can daddy make me an olive tomorrow?” “You mean an omelet?” Camille: “Yeah, with an egg. And some ham and some cheese. Maybe on a piece of bread.” “Sure, baby.”