Posted in General bitching, Mind blowers, Stupidity on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
So, Wednesday morning I was sitting at an outdoor cafe on a leafy downtown street in Montreal. Next to me on the cast iron chair, was an old friend and across from us was her blond friend, sporting dark-sunglasses (we were sitting in the shade) . We chatted idly over [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I am feeling slightly bereft. Also a little sad.
At 7:12, Boo and Monkey boarded the bus to Ottawa and off it went to collect the rest of the campers before heading to camp. My great deal lighter car followed the large bus out of the parking lot and I briefly entertained thoughts of tailing it [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics, Parenting, Ten things Tuesday on June 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I write this from sunny Montreal, and my parents’ home, where my daughters are sleeping for their last non-camp morning of the foreseeable future. We arrived yesterday afternoon in Bob’s Prius (it’s pale gold but the girls better term its color as “pearlized snot” 
stuffed to the point where I could only use the [...]
Posted in Mind blowers, Teaching on June 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I did search my mind for something zingier than that as a post title, but instead of settling for a groaner pun, I thought to get straight to the point. Last night, Bob and I ran the numbers for my Grammar students’ final grades. I ended up with an Excel spreadsheet of the [...]
Posted in Food, Green, Ten things Tuesday on June 19, 2007 | 8 Comments »
This morning found me attending the fourth grade breakfast, where Monkeyface and her cohorts were honored for their having achieved incipient fifth gradeness. The parents and teachers gathered around a central long table, where noshables lay waiting to be noshed on - things like mini muffins, croissants, strawberries, etc. What I found compelling, hypnotically [...]
Posted in Teaching on June 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I am mired in grading hell just now, sleep-deprived and maybe a teensy lot cranky, but when I received this from a student (ex-army, clever and insightful man), I stopped and took a moment to reflect on the wondrous effects of feedback. This had been my first go at Public Speaking (Effective Communication) and I [...]
Posted in Green, Mind blowers on June 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »
When I think about going to the great library in the sky, meeting my maker and joining the bleeding choir invisible, I admit I haven’t given much thought to the kind of box the bits I leave behind will occupy. We have all seen those glowing polished wood caskets with the comfy-looking [...]
Posted in Food, Green on June 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Environmental Working Group, an organization dedicated to exposing threats to health and environment and to finding solutions, is circulating an on-line petition designed to pressure the federal government to include strong provisions for organic farming in this year’s farm bill.
According to Agricultureonline, “About one-half of one percent of the USDA’s $2 billion research and [...]
Posted in Family Dynamics, General bitching, Organic Gardening, Teaching, Ten things Tuesday on June 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »
As I near the latter two weeks of teaching (for this semester) at TCC, many things hover on the list of things that must be done before I file all the myriad papers on my desk, put away my fine tipped marker pens and hand in my final grades, not the least of which are [...]
Posted in Teaching on June 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have just returned from class at the community college where I heard the first persuasive speeches student are performing as part of their final grades. Class began at 8:40 and by 9, we had a nearly full complement of nervous, jittery student who were generally trying not to be seen. I [...]
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