Happy Summer!
Hello, World. . . . The rush of the school year’s end collided with getting ready to teach grad school, and when I looked up today and took a breath, I realized that I had not blogged in a good while. Shame, shame, shame. I think, though, that as I gear up for my book [...]
Prepping for Potter
Alright, Potter fans: The time has finally arrived. We’ve spent the last year or so speculating the various outcomes for book seven, the last. We’ve analyzed both the UK and the US dust jackets for Deathly Hallows, searching for elusive clues that might give us some indication of just who might not be standing when [...]
Sheryl Crow to the Rescue
Carl mentioned her even after I said that I wasn’t looking for her, but of course he was right all along. I’m talking about my earlier post where I was in search of a singer to soothe my soul. I said I was looking for somebody like Sheryl Crow, but not her exactly. Well, I [...]
T13 no. 9
Thirteen Things that are on RUS’ mind. . . . 1. Why do my Starbucks cups leak whenever I am wearing a white shirt?2. Why does this seem to happen early in the morning, when I’m on my way to school, and I don’t have any possibility whatsoever of changing my shirt? 3. It would [...]
Hunting Down Wasckly Wabbits…
My goodness, I do believe there is hope yet. Beyond my wildest imagination, I witnessed something today that I thought could never happen again–especially in my own back yard (figuratively speaking, of course). But there they were, all three of them, laughing their heads off as if they were in hour three of the mega-Disney [...]
A Quintessential Moment With Cancer
This day, with each of its moments slowing to the length of no less than an hour, punctuated by the reverberating beat of my heart, a pulsed give-and-receive of life running through me and back again. And again. And again still one. more. time. This day, where I began stuck in melancholy, missing my mother [...]
Manic Monday
Monday greetings to you all: I had a power weekend in many ways, where I was filled with energy from 20 other teachers on Saturday during a 7-hour writing workshop–our first of 21 that will conclude on July 20. There is no greater feeling than being surrounded by like-minded folks who have strong, healthy attitudes [...]
Bypassing Flickr
First attempt at bringing my blog back to life with pictures. Maddie joins us below as she works on a very important project at school… To get this photo in the blog entry, I simply uploaded it from my desktop…something I can do on my PC laptop but not from my Mac, for some reason. [...]
Happy Friday!
Happy Friday, all! This weekend, I’ve got a mix of pleasures on my plate, but the one thing I’m looking most forward to is spending a little more time with the intricacies of my blog. For some reason, I’ve lost the ability to add images to my entries, so I have to send candy and [...]
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