Guardgoyle

 
Say hello to Guardgoyle, a clay creature created to combat dreams ill of nature, thoughts unpleasant and moments of loneliness.
Lovely, in this case possessing of an excessive imagination, smallest one, Monkeyface, has long feared to be alone on any floor (there are three in this house) where other people were not. At times, when [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday: Rosh Hashanah and more

When I was 12, I was given a cassette of Mozart’s Oboe and Clarinet Concerto, to which I studied, wrote, dreamed and tortured teddy bears that stood in for whatever boy I was mooning over. I stopped listening to it somewhere around 16, when u2 took over my soul. That same battered [...]

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Sunday, dreary Sunday

The rain is SO welcome, though.
Not only because everything outside is essentially dessicated, but because the gray and drizzly gloom outside is far more conducive to my getting the vast pile of work graded, filed, recorded, prepared and DONE. Sunny weather like we’ve experienced nigh on a month now makes me want to be [...]

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On challenging my youngest child

This morning, I met with my fifth grader’s two teachers (Sarah and Dave) and the Middle School Principal to discuss the year ahead as it pertains to Monkeyface. Since testing last year with high 90th percentile scores into the John Hopkins Center for Gifted and Talented Youth (CTY), she has exciting academic opportunities [...]

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Stories from the classroom

Of the two classes I am teaching this semester (which ends in two weeks), both Composition and Intro to Critical Thinking have pushed me to explore new methods and material. Of the 5, yeah FIVE, students in my composition class, I initially thought only 3 had the desire, let alone the talent, to be [...]

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New, Sunflowery Theme

Isn’t it pretty?
That’s a photo of a sunflower growing right outside the window of the study in which I sit typing. It will pale, and wither, but the photo will adorn my banner and I will see it and smile.
Boo has grown bored and increasingly vocal about said boredom, so in order to silence [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday: Absurdity

It’s been a while since I sat down and tended to my TTT responsibilities; I have been remiss and I have missed it, so onward to what’s been going on…
1. I have just received my (tentative) adjunct schedule for the coming semester and the hours for the first class reads like a Dali daydream: FOUR [...]

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Stuff of my life Meme

I have taken this meme from the wondrous Tense Teacher because it looks like such fun. Let’s have at it shall we?
What kind of soap is in your bathtub right now?
Well, it’s glycerin and I think it’s purple - lavender, I believe.
Do you have any watermelon in your refrigerator?
Nope. I have none growing [...]

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