Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Some kind of weird dynamics are going on in my classroom. For instance, during reading today, there came a brief lull when everyone in every literature discussion group must have taken a breath at the same time. One of those strange quick moments when a crowd is momentarily silent for no [...]
Listen to the MUSTN’TS Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child, Listen to the DON’TS Listen to the SHOULDN’TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then listen close to me– Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be. – Shel Siverstein 1932 – 1999 Today I needed this for me. [...]
April brought spring to Las Vegas, changed her mind and gave us winter. An ever contrary female, April changed her mind again and returned srpring to us, then snatched it back and replaced it with winter. Today we woke to summer. I wonder what we will get tomorrow? It is [...]
Two — count them — one, two — birthday posts from O’Ceallaigh. (The placement of the second post may require retaliation of some kind.) One from a Dawg named Doug. Well, two, but he erased me from yesterday and replaced me with a dead Russian. Pft. (OC replaced me with [...]
I thought I would celebrate this birthday, which O’Ceallaigh kicked off yesterday in a spirit of fun and follies, by telling you a particularly charming story of a birthday past — my 40th. The story doesn’t start all that charming. I received no birthday cards. No phone calls. No mention [...]