Donate Now Here’s a new memory for my imaginary first year of teaching treasure chest: a fellow teacher called me unpatriotic today! I was so wrong in assuming that the patriotic police ceased to exit when Bush left office. But I digress… We were having a planning meeting for the school assembly, and a teacher…

Donate Now Now that the test that shall no longer be named is over, my kids love me again. They were all really into drawing me pictures this week. And now I’m running out of room in my class to post their masterpieces. It’s adorable. And the project I have them working on, in which…

The idea of going through another TAKS season is vomit-inducing. I went running for the first time in three months yesterday, and it was a nice way to celebrate the end of a very stressful and unhealthy period in my life (candy drawer, I am locking you!). And today I started my first long-term project…