I finally saw the movie Waiting for Superman a couple weeks ago. If you have anything to do with education or any interest in education (and, now that I think about it, particularly if you don’t) — you need to see it. The guy who made An Inconvenient Truth is trying to do for education what he did […]
I’ve been such a downer lately, I thought I’d share some good news. Nothing major — and goodness knows tonight everything could go to hell in a homework handbasket — so I’ll tell you this now. Sophie had a spelling break-thru (is that how you spell that?) last night. At least, it felt like that. We […]
I’ve been thinking about Megan a lot, lately. I don’t know much about her — only that she has Down syndrome, and she went to our elementary school for a while several years ago. I’m not even sure I’ve ever seen her, although for some reason I have a clear picture in my mind of […]
I left school yesterday morning with a knot in my stomach, for the dumbest of reasons. There were plenty of good reasons, trust me. It wasn’t because I’d had to practically peel Sophie off my leg and push her up the stairs to get her to go to class — for no particular reason. It […]
Watch this video. Oh please, watch this video! I know you are busy. Me, too. But my dear friend Claire sent the link over — she’s also the one who showed me how to embed video! — and I was dumbstruck. So lovely. I’m a sucker for a title, and “Autumn Story” fits today perfectly. […]
It’s official. I have now seen it all. Do you belong to the PTA at your kid’s school? Good for you. I mean it. I have more than one friend who’s even ascended to the presidency. I have great admiration for these people. But I know myself. I don’t work well with others. Remember the […]
To be honest, when I set out on my question-asking mission this week, I only had three. But I knew a fourth would come to me and sure enough, it did. “Let’s see if you can both be dressed by the time I get out of the shower,” I called to the girls this morning, […]
OK, so today’s question is about Annabelle. Last week I asked her fourth grade teacher what I thought was an innocent question: Is Annabelle in the lowest math group? Turns out, that’s a big no-no. How did I get this far without realizing it? I guess it’s because the question I’ve always wanted to ask […]
Yesterday was not Sophie’s best day. It wasn’t mine, either (I won’t bore you with details) but I looked pretty good by comparison. “It was not a good day,” Courtney told me when we met in the parking lot before piano lessons. “No one said anything to me, but I overheard something about a fight […]
The other night, we hit the mall for Toy Story 3 and some food court action. The movie was great, the food terrible, nothing unexpected. And I wasn’t surprised when Sophie begged to ride the carousel. Typically, I’m the Carousel Girl — happy to take Sophie on it again and and again while Ray and […]
