I am gifted. According to the highly regarded, extremely technical test I completed online (in record time, I might add), my intelligence quotient measures 132 points. 132 points! That is 32 points higher than the average adult, and a measly 7 points below Mensa qualification. … [Read more...]

OK, I admit it. Like a ripe cheese or a really fine wine, I have aged. My teaching career has spanned over 30 years and is still going strong. But even though I love education and the children I’m influencing, I feel like a dinosaur. My veteran comrades have retired, enjoying … [Read more...]

My son has no idea what physical feats I chose to endure to conceive him. Of course, my first husband and I both worked at the baby-making process until it lost all its charm. I came to the conclusion that my eggs must’ve been little cloaked prudes with wings, always escaping … [Read more...]

Toddlers. Irrational. Explosive. Highly energetic. And let us not forget dangerous. They can be pure charm, and melt your heart as they pitter patter across the kitchen floor, lovey in hand and plant a wet kiss on your cheek. But the same little pitter patter can land at your … [Read more...]

A meeting was held on the second floor, On how to cut the costs just a little bit more, Jack from accounting spoke about waste, The R.N.s, he said, should be fired with haste, No one will miss them, he said with a smile, I have here the best of the personnel file, Joe from … [Read more...]