a moment of good friends
http://www.joyfulabode.com/2010/04/26/a-freaking-mazing-artichoke-dip/ made that and also this http://therealfoodmama.com/2010/12/19/christmas-primal-hors-doeuvres/ because I’m swimming on how to deal with people in my   home. And how and who to be friends with. Treading water I guess. going to try nablopomo this month. Well why not? It helps me to get writing again. …
The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. John Ruskin
I’m not going to look at the gaps over the last month or so. I keep saying it but it has been a rough year. What are the most important things to you about your job? Is it your pay? Respect? Perks? That what you do matters? I’m having …
It is a cart if it goes well, otherwise it is but timber ~Hindi Proverb
I’ve had my first really ‘feels like I’m finally on break’ day. Got J and the Bean up but both of them were still so sunburned from their accident on the lake (boat broke down, sunscreen didn’t work) they were tired and couldn’t go to work and GT camp …
You did then what you knew how to do, And when you knew better, You did better. Maya Angelou
I have eleventy blog posts in the back of my mind but I haven’t had time or energy to get to them. the last 30 days of the school year (not say the month of may—school is going into June this year). We’re all burnt, we’re all tired. I have …
Due to the lack of experienced trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed for three weeks ~Unknown
It must be nigh unto the apocalypse because this is two posts in under a week and it isn’t even November (Nablopomo)! Well here’s my end of the world song:  Mambo Number 5  Because it should all be about lots of lusty bits and dancing with good saxophones. …
Short Attention Span Theatre
And here comes the buckshot entry. By that I mean all over the place and watch out what it hits. Work has been rough. I hope it is getting better. It really has to get better. I’m lucky I have a great boss, great teachers, great principals. And I …
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. ~Madeleine L’Engle
One of the ways I prepare my thoughts for what I’m going to write is once the topic is lodged in my brain I look for a quote that fits the feeling I’m feeling. Usually I stay with the quote, sometimes—like the last entry I don’t. I started off …
You know everything must change /As time goes by /Though it feels like yesterday/ When we first met ~Voltaire: Anniversary
I wish I wasn’t going to blither, but that may be what you are going to get. I have pneumonia or a really horrible case of bronchitis from the SECOND flu I’ve had this year. I had a horrible cold, 2 flus, a stomach virus and dislocated my ankle. Since August. I …
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. William Cowper
The Biggest Risk You’ve Ever Taken–Postaday2011, Postaweek2011 Ok, back on the bloggy horse, for reals this time. I don’t think I can post every day, but I’d like to post a couple of times a week, or a least once a week. I’ll shoot for once a week and …
To Boldly Go….James Kirk
Had to change the initial title, it sounded like he died. That can never happen! Today is the Shat’s 80th birthday. When I was well, 12 through oh. last week…I had a lifesize poster of Captain Kirk on my ceiling (and a standup of Spock in the corner. I …
it’s his voice, sing to me Max
Ich bin der Bogeyman. Ich bin die Furcht. Ich liebe dich. I don’t know it’s his voice it’s what he’s saying it’s the music it’s how he appears. I find myself driving. I find myself sitting alone. I am moved in a way I haven’t been since.. Vivaldi’s winter when …
Talking to hear your head rattle~C.H. Boyd
That’s a quote of my dad’s. I don’t have anything significant to say, that’s what I’m thinking right now, but I’m doing a “just write†what we do in education to get kids to well, just write. I got one kid to write this really cool bit about his dog …