by Dawn | Jan 23, 2016 | Teaching
“Kids today!” I hear this a lot. Teachers grumble about kids’ phones, inappropriate digital activity, kids and their Snapchat… My entrepreneur friends talk about the millennial entitlement–employees who want to leave at 5PM and own the...
by Dawn | Jul 8, 2014 | parenting, writing, Zen
Summer recreation. It’s a gift from God to all parents who work twenty-five hours a day. It’s eighty dollars for the whole summer. I’m in love. Declan’s been talking about summer camp for days, but yesterday was the first day. We packed his...
by Dawn | Mar 7, 2014 | parenting
He’s in my bed again, that cuddly, snuggly boy. Cuddly, snuggly boys take up all the room. They grab the blankets, they kick, and they sometimes laugh in the middle of the night–great big cackly laughs like they’ve found perfect happiness. I’d...
by Dawn | Aug 10, 2013 | fashion, Teaching
I’m watching commercials for back to school clothes. It’s important to predict the styles that I’ll be up against when I return. I consider each possible combination that could arrive in my classroom. No, I don’t want to own them, I want to be...
