Reading has always been my escape, well, as long as I can remember anyway. But like a lot of readers I've talked to recently, falling in...

My eldest daughter is a senior in high school. Almost eighteen. Almost a college student. She's nearly as freaked out about that as I ...

Ah, another year over and what have you done? Well, I completed my twenty-first year as a teacher, and, is often the case when I'm finis...

When my daughter was but a wee thing, and I was in recovery from a yucky medical experience, we watched the Buffy the Vampire Slayer televi...

My eldest daughter turned fifteen on me a few months ago. That means we're in the downhill slide into getting a license. It's no lon...

I've been feeling that compassion is sorely lacking in the world around me of late, so I was thrilled to learn of this hashtag movement ...

I don't remember what the weather was like on her first day. After all, I spent it (and several of the ensuing days) in the hospital bei...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/rabbit2.jpg?_sm_au_=isVHLDFJTMPWkQZt So, it's testing season. When the teachers and students feel ...

You might think that Eddie Haskell is a remnant of the 50s, long gone. But I assure he is alive and well and walking middle school hallway...

I think I was an older kid or an earlier teenager when I first heard the word kleptomaniac. I misheard it and thought is was Keptomaniac...

Friday has gotten complicated around here.  The Mom is exhausted from a week of mom-ing and teaching and would like to sit on the couch ...

I don't remember my first trip to the beach. I know that my parents took me to Myrtle Beach and Virginia Beach sometime in my later ...

It seemed to happen overnight, sometime this past school year, during seventh grade. It's not that I hadn't foreseen this.  Daught...

http://www.readthespirit.com/religious-holidays-festivals/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/May-Day-1936-Georgia.jpg Ah, spring.  The...