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September 10, 2008
A new addition to the family, Skadaddle
A new addition to the family, Skadaddle
Hey – if Brett Favre and Lance Armstrong can do it…If Michael Jordan can do it and George Foreman can do it…If Cher and The Eagles can do it…well, then I can come out of retirement (from time to time), as well. And, like those who have dared to re-enter their respective fields of play before me, I, too, am only coming back to the biggest of news. We’ve welcomed a new addition to our household and I just had to shout from the rooftops.
I’m, of course, writing about K-Man’s new imaginary friend. [more]
September 10, 2008
Losses and gains, Professor Mom In each of my three sections of English Fundamentals this week, we read Mark Halliday's Young Man on Sixth Avenue, and in each class I asked students to come up with two or three conflicts they saw present in the story. All three classes came up with the good, but conventional ones: the Young Man vs. his inner self; the Young Man vs. society; the Young Man vs. life. In my third and final class today, a young woman raised her hand and said she saw in the story a conflict between gains and losses.
Losses and gains, Professor Mom In each of my three sections of English Fundamentals this week, we read Mark Halliday's Young Man on Sixth Avenue, and in each class I asked students to come up with two or three conflicts they saw present in the story. All three classes came up with the good, but conventional ones: the Young Man vs. his inner self; the Young Man vs. society; the Young Man vs. life. In my third and final class today, a young woman raised her hand and said she saw in the story a conflict between gains and losses.
September 9, 2008
Passing the advice baton, Professor Mom
Passing the advice baton, Professor Mom
T. and I went to the library before picking up L. yesterday, and ended up with two armfuls of books--including one amazingly perfect picture book for L. (even though he's eight now, he's not beyond a good picture book). This one was Violet the Pilot--all about a gutsy, smart, and different girl who spends her time making airplanes out of junk. While I was checking out all the books, T. [more]
September 8, 2008
Raising more than money, Professor Mom
Raising more than money, Professor Mom
Now that summer is over, my son's thoughts are turning to...making money. He's an enterprising kid, with a constant flow of ideas about new inventions, designs, and lucrative business ventures he hopes to embark on--immediately, usually. And he has, like most eight-year-old kids (and adults, actually), a shortage of funds. Last week we spent hours talking about how he could start his own salvage business for retrieving treasure off of shipwrecked vessels. He would design special submersible robots to do the dangerous work, and then pocket all the gold. [more]
September 5, 2008
Good things at the end of a long day, Professor Mom
Good things at the end of a long day, Professor Mom
Yesterday was one of those days that nearly did me in. T.'s appointments went well, and even though the morning started out ominously, because we had to wait in the waiting room for a full 45 minutes before being seen, we saw both doctors at once, and were out of there by 10:30--a huge, unexpected, miraculous bonus. [more]
September 4, 2008
Fragment from a busy day, Professor Mom
Fragment from a busy day, Professor Mom
I'll be spending the morning today in doctors' office waiting rooms with T., as we go through her annual appointments with the surgeons who repaired her metopic craniosynostosis--a birth defect she was born with. She had surgery at six months old and, ever since that July in 2004, we've been making the trek to the hospital regularly for follow-ups. [more]
September 3, 2008
Have tofu...will go to college, Professor Mom When I was back home this past weekend, the college town where my parents live was filled with returning and brand-new college students. It was strange, and made me feel significantly older, to walk through the neighborhood I used to roam so confidently when I was a college student, and to have to weave my way past the throngs of eager college freshmen with their iPods and hip clothes and too tight T-shirts.
Have tofu...will go to college, Professor Mom When I was back home this past weekend, the college town where my parents live was filled with returning and brand-new college students. It was strange, and made me feel significantly older, to walk through the neighborhood I used to roam so confidently when I was a college student, and to have to weave my way past the throngs of eager college freshmen with their iPods and hip clothes and too tight T-shirts.
September 2, 2008
So long, summer, Professor Mom
So long, summer, Professor Mom
Our pool closed for the season yesterday, as did many pools around the country. We pulled into our driveway at 4:00 p.m., after leaving Maryland at 10:00 that morning. After depositing our things in piles all over the place and checking that the fish were still okay and the rabbit happy and well-fed, I cooked up a quick batch of Chimichurra rice (thank you, Trader Joe's). Then we headed off to the pool for the Labor Day/Closing Day potluck. I think celebrating summer's end at the pool is a fitting way to see the season out. [more]
September 1, 2008
Thirty-nine, Professor Mom
Thirty-nine, Professor Mom
Some years ago, when we first moved to North Carolina, a neighbor-friend, who was also the mom of two small boys, was telling me about some plans for her oldest son’s birthday. They were keeping it low key, she told me, which seemed reasonable enough. But then she went on to add that “they try not to make a big deal out of birthdays.” That struck me as odd, somehow, and I turned that phrase around in my head for a while. [more]
August 29, 2008
Thank you and goodnight!, Skadaddle
Thank you and goodnight!, Skadaddle
This is my last post on FamilyEducation.com. I have mixed feelings about this, but I know, in my heart of hearts, that the time is right to move on to other projects. After all, if you've read most/any of the posts over the course of these many months, you know that one thing remains constant for me: gotta keep living/chasing the dream. And the dream is ever-changing. [more]
