I have one more day of high school until I’m done forever. That is to say, my child has one more day of high school, but I’m more excited about this than all of the seniors put together. I would do the Last Day of School Dance of Joy but I have a bad […]
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Summer Reading Crashes Party; 2 Injured
If this book is on your child’s summer reading list, you need to run for school board. Gah! I almost forgot about summer reading! I’ve been planning my summer with the precision of a CIA operation. My calendar is color-coded now, despite 14 years I spent making fun of a woman I knew in […]
Driving Miss Crazy
I start my day by driving my daughter into the high school. Why doesn’t she take the bus, you ask? Because I made the grave mistake last year of driving my kids to school once and in the Language of Teenagers, that translated to: I never have to ride the bus again. This morning […]
I Think My Spaceship Knows Which Way to Go
High school kids are hopeless. Maybe not all of them, but enough of them that if you took the whole lot of them and stuffed them into a spaceship and sent it off to orbit the earth for about four years, what would the downside be? Besides the smell? OK, maybe sports would suffer […]