Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
So, I was supposed to attend a coworker’s Christams party last night. Before I left school on Friday he called me from his classroom and offered me a map to his home. I am not normally directionally challenged. “I’ve been there already, remember? Don’t worry. I’ll find it.” He said, [...]
When I was a teenager I had a cyst on my vocal cords and though the cyst is long gone my voice was left all husky, smoky and low. It’s not so apparent in real life, but something about phone technology enhances those qualities. At least it used to — [...]
I took a class today titled, “How to Teach Writing.” For those of you who want to ask, “Why do you need that class when you’ve been published?” Let me just say that knowing how to write, and knowing how to explain writing well are two different things. Ineffective teaching: [...]
Apparently it is time to make an appoinment with my optometrist. I focus by shifting my gaze from lens to bifocal and moving myself back and forth until whatever I want to see comes into view. This needs to stop before somebody decides I’d look cute on the dashboard of [...]
There is a crack in the linoleum on my kitchen floor. Today my little “Yellow School Bus” kitty wobbled over to the crack and stopped. She stared at it so long I finally got out of my chair, walked over to the crack, bent down and examined it, too. It [...]