Sending a Kid up Everest

Report cards and parent conferences are over, and it’s time for Thanksgiving break! I feel like I’ve worked hard enough for it! Exhaustion makes me cranky and maybe a little fanciful. My over-exerted neurons are firing off crazy ideas and strange little...

Squashed Flat

I don’t have much for you today, folks. A week of being buried under report cards was followed by a week of parent-teacher conferences – including one 12-hour work day – and I still have more conferences to do tonight. I’m feeling squashed flat – kind of like our old...

The Crime of the Century

I love it when I’m researching a project and I discover a fascinating side story that has nothing to do with my WIP, yet pulls me off track for hours, just reading about it. While reading about Tesla’s experiments on Long Island at Wardenclyffe Tower, I came across a...