Scratch

It’s a big girl world now
Full of big girl things
And everyday I wish I was small
I’ve been counting on nothing
But he keeps giving me his word
And I am tired of hearing myself speak
Do you ever get weary?
Do you ever get weak?
How do you dream
When you can’t fall asleep?
I’ve been wondering what you’re thinking
And if you [...]

Self-Portrait

    I asked my kids today in class to draw a self-portrait.  After each child drew their face I outlined it with hot glue and then they used pastels to color it. It was one of my end of the day projects. Easy and requiring little clean up so that I can wind down a [...]

Ophelia

…………………………………………………. This is me silently fuming over things that I can’t really write about.  So lets talk about pets. Kittens for example, while very cute when they are little, do eventually grow up. And shed. And make messes that you will have to clean up. And when they have passed the kitten phase they will [...]

Loose ends

I went in for my last fitting today. The dress wasn’t ready. They hadn’t finished the bustle. The seamstress checked the wedding date and said she could have it done tommorow. I told her it was fine the wedding was off and I was just here to pick up the dress. I had to smile [...]

What Can I Say

Look to the clock on the wall,
Hands hardly moving at all.
Can’t stand the state that I’m in
Sometimes it feels like the walls closing in
chrous:
O lord what can I say
I am so sad since you went away
time time ticking on me
Alone is the last place I wanted to be
Lord what can I say
Try to bury my [...]

For Jack,

I had an epiphany today. Mrs. Pollard had given me my last homework assignment: to figure out what I learned from all of this. I tried to write a list. I didn’t get very far. But I figured it out today. Two things: 1.) knowing and learning are two very different things, and 2.) there [...]