I am hundreds of miles away from school as I write this, and skipping town the day after graduation was a most excellent idea. It was a long...

I bought a hair dryer today. It is the first I have owned in more than twenty years, and it is for my kitten. I have had Dashiell (after D...

When I was younger, I was obsessed with etiquette books. We had Amy Vanderbilt at home, but I also studied Emily Post and even Miss Manners ...

Thursday morning during the mid-morning break, one of my favorite ninth graders poked into the library to tell me there were kittens in the ...

Long time, no blogging...not that I haven't had anything to say. School goes insanely long this year, into the week after Memorial Day...