I just watched three of the most gut-wrenching failed public marriage proposals ever. The most cringe-worthy moments you could ever imagine. For your enjoyment, I have posted them (along with…
As I’ve said before, I’m not happy when lawmakers make simple historical blunders, but I can live with them. Nobody’s perfect. It’s the refusal to admit that you have made…
Without question, the stupidest simile in the history of similes is drunk as a skunk. It is a simile not based upon meaning but simply upon rhyme. Skunks have absolutely…
Sometimes I get unnecessarily annoyed, so this could admittedly be one of those occasions. But I don’t think so. Ever since the beginning of June, the Connecticut landscape has exploded…
I was reading an extremely abbreviated version of The Little Mermaid to my daughter last night when we came upon this last page. As I pondered what I might say…
My alarm fired off this morning at 5:00. I opened my eyes and began mentally preparing for work. Lesson plans. Homework assignments. Leveled texts. Motivational strategies. Then I suddenly realized…
I almost always hate when someone tells me what I can and cannot wear. Part of it is the five year old in me, refusing to be told what to…
From a Time magazine piece: “Dr. Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health and his colleagues report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that too much…
Time magazine asks: Do students have a First Amendment right to make fun of their principals and teachers on Facebook and other social-media sites? Or can schools discipline them for…
Why is everyone so anxious to write me off? I describe my knee pain to a friend, and he tells me that my days of playing basketball are almost over.…
