Quintessentially Quilly

Quilldancer! Yay! What did I win? Bragging rights! Today Tom’s Rhetoric featured Challenge #1 and I was the first visitor, there literally within moments of Tom’s posting, and I knew all three answers! Even if I never wim again, no one else can ever win Tom’s 1st Contest. His second [...]

My mother, I’ve been told, loved to plant things and watch them grow. While she was still pregnant with me she planted a Bridal Veil bush along side Gram’s house. My mother did not live to see the bush, or me, grow. But grow we each did; neither of us [...]

To those of you who thought I should be wearing tennis shoes for my Two Hat Day, I was wearing 3 inch heels, a swishy black skirt and a black and white “art deco” blouse. Before the morning was half over my feet were aching. A campus big enough to [...]

This morning I will start off the day as a 5th grade teacher. After about 30 minutes a substitute will enter my classroom and I will dash across campus to facilitate a kindergarten professional development class on emergent writing. Forty minutes later I will return to my classroom for about [...]

George, from my A Super Hero is Born post, wants you all to know that: His real name is not George. Jasmine is not really named, Jasmine, and he did not sit on his hands, he put them behind his back. Other than that, the story was mostly true. He [...]