There are four parts of winter in the Midwest. There is fall-winter, Christmas-winter, winter-winter, and mud-winter. Fall-winter is what happens when it snows on Halloween, when you realize you need a serious coat, when the sharpness of the air starts to take your breath away. Christmas-winter is when you dream of snowflakes and relish twinkle […]
I had two back-to-back cancellations this morning, which rarely happens. I decided to use my office hours to tackle a giant To Do list of billing and paperwork and emails that have been glaring at me for the last few weeks. This list has been niggling at the back of my mind, and even though […]
I think of myself as a reasonably intelligent human being. But helping my ten-year-old with his homework is challenging that belief. The other day I had to look up the difference between complex and compound sentences. I am, apparently, not smarter than a 5th grader. Reading about grammar got me thinking about semicolons, commas, periods […]
The weather is teasing us. We’ve had crisp, cool days and hot, humid days. It’s kind of summer and kind of fall, like the season is trying to shift, trying to slide into what’s next, but it hasn’t clicked over quite yet. But our schedule has clicked over. We are well into the school […]