I never thought my teacher education would help me in raising perfect children. Those years of reading textbooks, practicums, and droning lectures has rolled over to being of good use to my parenting skills. Now I think of the (tens of) thousands of dollars I spent on graduate school as my pre-school for parenting. All of those [...]
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Observations
I have to think I’m doing something VERY right when a Twitter friend says this to me: I have a hard time breathing when I don’t understand the inner workings of your mind. ~@fannyroy If you were to ask Patrick, he’d “Ditto” that statement, Fanny. And so would I most days.
This kind of has nothing to do with my girl-crush on Rachel Maddow, except it does because now it’s too hard not to have a crush on her smarts. It’s no secret that I’m a liberal Democrat. I watch and read the news with as open a mind as I can manage. Though I may [...]
I believe that positivity begets positivity and all that shit. When things start to go wrong around me, I blame my lack of attention to positive thinking. Which, I guess me blaming me for a negative attitude is kind of the opposite of the point. While I was sleeping last night, I must have been [...]
I’m not a lawyer*, but I play one on the internet. Since pretty much my whole life online is spent in a perpetual state of snarkasm, I figured it was time for me to actually read some laws about what I do. This also proves that I’m in a perpetual state of procrastination. And what [...]
