A friend stopped to see me the other day. She has three really bright, actually gifted is a better term, girls. We have had many a conversation about how to best provide them opportunities to grow and be challenged while having a slim budget. This is a common question and I was more than ready…
Month: July 2017
Silent Sunday: Randomness
Monarch Update Yields Hope
Today, is the Monarch Monitoring Blitz hosted by Monarch Joint Venture. I came across a posting on social media that reminded me of this citizen science event. Having raised monarchs for 14 years, I definitely feel the need to participate in the reporting activities of this weekend. Just to set the stage, this summer I…
My Days as Principal
Of course, this is facetious, for I am not a principal or even a teacher for that matter, but there have been times in recent years I have had to act as one. Recent duties have brought this forward in my mind once again. Yesterday, I had to assist my youngest son on turning in…
Siding Sacrifice
This morning, just as I sat down to type up answers to a batch of new garden based math questions I developed for enrichment, I got distracted. As I sat down, with my anniversary roses in front of me, out of the corner of my eye I saw my husband of thirty years outside our…
Tea: A Poem of Comfort
via Daily Prompt: Tea I am not sure I could live without my cup of tea. Warm, relaxing, amber to saddle in color, steeped endlessly in my mug, But, only of the black variety. Herbals, Oolong, Green, Fruity, none satisfy like the first cup of Black in the morning light. Tea. A remnant of my…
It just flowed out of me……
“Gross,” you might say! “No, not really,” I would reply. I was referring figuratively to my creative juices yesterday afternoon. Once in a while, and it has been less frequent of late, everything just falls into place when I am creating. Yesterday, it happened when I sat down to make jewelry. I have also had…
Tuesday’s Slice of Life Are Slices of Life
There is much I could write about today for my slice of life post and the supportive writing community of two writing teachers blog. There is the personal angle, really foremost in my mind that today is my 30th wedding anniversary! It really is a milestone of two lives entwined with a shared past, content…
Fragrance or Odor? All in the Nose of the Beholder.
Being blessed with an acute sense of smell is both a blessing and a curse. The tiniest of scent in the air can be picked up by my olfactory system. Scents, like music, can also transport me in time back to my first love – a clean fresh smell of deodorant, or being in college,…