Category: <span>Thoughts and Musings</span>

Sit.  Stay at home, mom. Stay. I chose to be a stay-at-home mom.  I willingly gave up grading vocab quizzes, rousing snoozing students from drool-slicked desktops, signing crumpled hall passes,…

Thoughts and Musings

It’s finally arrived: Summer Vacation.  (Necessary to slap capital letters on those words.)  While I’m (not) busy this week sipping sweet tea on a South Carolina beach, three of my…

Thoughts and Musings

I have a confession to make: I’m taking the easy way out with today’s post. I’m stealing some memories from my France 2006 travel journal rather than writing brand new…

Thoughts and Musings Wanderings and Travel

And now for something completely different.  A series of 100-word “postcards” from my weekend solo trip to New York City. I don’t have a sippy cup.  I’m out of wipes. …

Thoughts and Musings

“‘I’m glad it’s wick!’ she cried out in her whisper.  ‘I want them all to be wick.  Let us go round the garden and count how many wick ones there…

Thoughts and Musings Wanderings and Travel

Big Friend, Little Friend, and I celebrated the Fourth in a typically American way: eating traditional Iranian sandwiches.  Actually, for a couple of hours this morning, I was planning on…

Thoughts and Musings