For a while today, I thought I was going to come home from teaching and wax profound, what with all the profundity swirling through my head as I taught. Then, I came home and listened to “Trucker’s Hitch,†the new song by Ylvis, and all I could think about is how my life would have […]
Parenting
And We’re Back
We’re back to school, that is, after a long, hard summer of RVs, fake Disney trips, and backyard snakes. Yeah, you heard me. After only one snake in three years of living here, we’ve now had two in a matter of three weeks. I think the second one was also non-poisonous, but as I’ve mentioned, […]
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We Went Off: The Epilogue (#9)
For earlier parts of our tale, see #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, and #8. I was driving, so I noticed it first, and tried to remember which dashboard light was on as I asked LCB a question that will likely go down in Island Family infamy, “Wait honey, what does that light mean […]
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Coffee with Christine: Recapping the Summer of 2014
It’s time for more caffeine and some summer highlights. In June, in addition to our trip out West, we faked a Disney trip. Budget constrains, time constrains, and maternal constraints (I love Disney, but I don’t do Disney in the summer) didn’t allow park attendance, but when LCB had business nearby for a few days, […]
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Coffee with Christine: End of the School Year Miscellany
Time for more coffee, y’all. Much to the small people’s delight, we’ve reached the end of the school year. And thus, I just demonstrated to you how good I am at telling the partial truth. The full version of it, you ask? In summary, while I love my students and much of what I do, […]
Life Tides
Once upon a time that now seems like a memory of both yesterday and a century ago, there was a young woman who said “yes†to a question posed on the beach one fine, sunny day (actually, it was pitch-black and winter-cold, but let’s pretend). This soon-to-be bride was in need of, among other things, […]