Happy New Year, and welcome 2023! As usual, it is time for resolutions. I know, I know, but I am a resolution kind of girl, and for the most part I manage to stick to at least one each year. I say one because I usually come up with four or five every …
Traditions. That’s what I think about this time of year. Every family has them, and my family is no exception. My parents are fruits from the Tradition Tree, if my childhood is any indication, and they took the time to cultivate the rhythm and rhyme of the necessity of rituals throughout life in each …
What a lovely surprise I received today by the lovely Suchita Senthil Kumar @suchita_senthil! Suchita is a 17-year-old blogger from India and, according to her Twitter handle, an “artist creating chaos,” which I absolutely love. Suchita is currently blogging about her life during Covid and how she works to find balance in a crazy world …
Recently, Daddy was featured on the Raised on DnD podcast with Neil Cardarelli. A gamer for forty years, Daddy raised all three of us to play (my personal favorite was DragonQuest 😊), hosted a D&D club at school, and invented his own game, Skill Master, where players use a deck of cards instead of …
Let’s eat Grandma! Let’s eat, Grandma! Yes, we’ve all seen this meme about the importance of the comma. Poor Grandma looks torn between running for the hills or serving up her famous chicken potpie with a smile. It’s funny and makes quite a few of us teachers laugh. But it also makes a point, and …
Writers are insane. It’s true. We really are. Think about it. Little people live inside our heads and talk to us. Incessantly. Sometimes we can ignore them because they honestly sound like Charlie Brown’s teacher—you know, “Wa-Wa-Wawa-Wa.” At times, they can be conversational, filling us in on juicy gossip about our neighbors who like to …