Lady in a Small Town

This month’s NaBloPoMo theme is “looking up”. Here are some things that are “looking up” in my life right now. It is only 2 weeks until my birthday. It is only 2 weeks until my son’s birthday. School is nearly over for the year. The weather is getting better. I am feeling pretty good. My [...]

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Twitter just added a new feature.  You can make lists of your friends.  I love making lists.  I love putting things into groups and categories.  I made 4 lists: People I know, Bloggers, Celebs, Companies. The Celebs, and Companies were easy.  And even the People I know started easy, but then I started getting confused. [...]

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Pregnancy Fail « FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments. I can’t tell you how many times a doctor or midwife said “pregnant people” or “when a person is pregnant”, or the like, while I was pregnant.  I mean seriously.  Political correctness has its place, but that one she-male [...]

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So much for posting every day in September.

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I was in my literacy room waiting for my third graders. The same room I teach in now. My para walked in from her break. “You haven’t left the room, have you?” she asked. “No.” I said. “Then you don’t know.” she said, quietly. “Know what?” “I will tell you after.” “No, please tell me.” [...]

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I am kicking off my renewed interested in blogging.  I know I am not the most interesting writer, but I am going to try. When I was in high school a friend gave me a book called 14,000 Things to be Happy About.  I started a list of my happy things in 1993.  When I [...]

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