Deep Thoughts

My three year old daughter is obsessed with making “Balemtimes” Day cards. She takes index cards or other similarly sized papers, covers them with stickers or simple drawings, and hangs them up with tape. We now have at least one hundred of them decorating our kitchen and its surrounding walls. I wonder…will this go on…

Mine was fine. It was great. How great was it? Well, it wasn’t so much great as it was hard. How hard? Oh, really hard. One of the hardest times of my life. But also really great. It was stressful too. But also joyful. It was emotionally and psychologically exhausting but mostly in good ways.…

I was having a pretty crappy morning, all things considered. Some matters at school were not sitting well with me and I felt uneasy, anxious, and resentful. Too bad, because when you’re a kindergarten teacher, no matter what’s going on in your personal life, the show must go on! And so I proceeded to teach…

Have you read The Three Little Pigs lately? There are many, many versions of this story. The one written by Paul Galdone is one of the classics–and the ending is particularly savage. In it, the wolf handily devours the first two pigs but not the third because the third pig is too clever. Then, in…

Time to wake Time to eat Time to dress Time to leave Time to come Time to go Time to decide Time to look Time to dream Time to wonder Time to know Time to pretend Time to choose Time to visit Time to clean Time to play Time to talk Time to finish Time…