I Read Banned Books

I am officially a geek, or is it geekette? Booger Bear purchased my first comic book today, Serenity. I shouted “Woo hoo” when I found out about it and asked if he had purchased two — one to read and one to save. Then when I got home and read more about it online here [...]

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I AM a procrastinator.
I KNOW my driver’s license number.
I HAVE three cats (Xoralundra, Pekoe, and Kittle) and one dog (Spenser).
I WISH that I were more patient.
I HATE pulling weeds and picking up dog poop.
I MISS rainy day weather and grass.
I FEAR losing my mind.
I SEARCH for the right words when I am upset with [...]

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As an educator I know I will either burn in hell for this or receive hate mail via my comments box, but I cannot resist sharing a blog from yesteryear that I still occasionally reread for shits and giggles. It has not been updated in the longest time, but there are several items of [...]

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We are already up to Emily this season. What if hurricane names were crazy black names?
A - AdidasB - Blanket (It works for Michael Jackson’s youngest son.)C - Chiquita or Chiquana (I went to school with twins with these names.)D - Deterion (I had a kid by this name expelled.)E - EscaladeF - FebreezeG [...]

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I just finished reading In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner. (Yes, it has been made into a movie to be released in late August, starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley Maclaine.) This is a follow up to Weiner’s debut novel Good in Bed (which I have not read but will now along with her [...]

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These belt buckles were all the rage with middle school teens at the school where I work near the end of this school year. You might be surprised at some of the appropriate and inappropriate messages I saw scroll across them on a daily basis. Examples I saw included the following:

Pimp
Hottie
Cutie
WWJD
Hawaiian
N*gger
Drama Queen
I [...]

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“Huh?”
“What?”
“(No answer)”
“But I didn’t hear you”
“What’s that you say?”
What is it with 12.5 year old boys? Do they suddenly lose their hearing between sixth and seventh grades? Monkey Boy is here for five weeks this summer, but I am not sure he can hear anymore. For the past two weeks, I have heard a chorus [...]

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