Hope's Award
Hope got a Principal’s award for “Improved Behavior and Being a Great Reader who Loves to Read.”
March 2006
The Disadvantages of Pooling Knowledge
Quoting from this site: Computers traced to Capitol Hill removed unpalatable facts from articles on senators, while other entries were “vandalised”, the site (Wikipedia) said. … Senator Coleman’s office has confirmed that staff there had made a number of changes to his online record. Where he was described as a “liberal” back in college, this
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Don't Go Away Mad
You know the song. “…Just go away.” It always astonishes me, what I can get done in an hour undisturbed. Well, mostly. Today is Wednesday. On Wednesdays the teachers and kids leave an hour earlier, and the office staff works as fast as possible to take advantage of the brief peace. That is if we
Hideous Night
I don’t know what was going on with Hope tonight, but sheesh! Mean and spiteful backtalk, attitude and more attitude…she’d say she wasn’t trying to give me attitude, I’d tell her what I was perceiving as attitude, and she’d do it some more. She went to her room the second dinner was over, let me
My Letter
I wrote mine. Your turn. Dear Representative Grijalva, GW Bush lied. He doctored the evidence and he lied to take us to war, so he could give us Saddam when he couldn’t find Bin Laden. He set up secret prisons, his vice president fought tooth and nail for the right to torture, and he went
My Tummy Hurts
Ah, yes, it is the weekend for whining, is it not? My tummy hurts. My writing is going okay despite that, but Keen has started bothering me again. I’m not sure Viv is a good idea. Did I really decide to change something so major based on what prospective readers might think? But I like
My Feet Hurt
First, we went to the bank. Miss Hope in her pretty hat with her (huge) purse and her KidSafe ID card was permitted just this once to withdraw $20 from her savings account. Then we went to WalMart, home of the best cheap pet food in bags big enough I don’t have to buy it