by Dawn | Jan 10, 2013 | family, food, gratitude, simplicity, sustainability
I found my canvas bags. In my move, I’d lost them and I’d been forced to use plastic. I’d committed a great many enviro-crimes in moving from House A to House B, the least of which was forgetting my bags. I confessed this to my green friend. I...
by Dawn | Jan 7, 2013 | family, food, satire, simplicity, sustainability, Uncategorized
I was doing the grocery shopping–because that’s what good moms do, and I took time out of my life to really pay attention to people’s carts. I’ll admit it…I’m frugal. I might even do a mini-series on frugal, because it’s a...
by Dawn | Jan 5, 2013 | education reform, gratitude, politics, satire, Teaching
I would just like to pause to take a moment to be thankful for Congress. I had been a little down about the public perception of education. I even got chastised by a good friend after sending a link to an education article in which I had some involvement. “You...
by Dawn | Dec 30, 2012 | food, politics, Rhode Island, satire, sustainability, Uncategorized
Yesterday morning seemed to be a good time to reflect about my twenty years in Rhode Island. I was driving to an appointment I inadvertently scheduled for next Saturday, making me seven days and ten minutes early, when all of a sudden a rusty-red truck cut me off,...
by Dawn | Dec 27, 2012 | education reform, family, gratitude, parenting, satire, Teaching
In fourth grade, I won a spelling bee. Or something similar. I got a prize. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. I was an avid reader, the kind of kid who didn’t mind getting sent to my room because there were books there. I took my prize upstairs and...
