I love Cape Cod. I’ve been going there since I was sixteen, then with my parents, now with my children (and still my parents) to the house we have rented for the last fifteen years. So you can imagine the joy I felt when I purchased Richard Russo’s That Old Cape Magic for my mom […]
XKCD and Emily Dickinson
The Carriage I love this comic. Witty, funny, sarcastic, just what I need to take my mind off of the things that threaten to crush my spirit (and there are plenty of those things…but I guess we all have those).
Back to School *shudder*
Yes, it’s that time of year again. The time of year where we all get our new notebooks and new shoes. Where we decorate our rooms with new bulletin boards and get giddy over the new curricula we will all be teaching. And yet, there always comes a certain melancholy (thank you, Linda, for the […]
The End of Summer
Well, here it is. The end of summer. The end of the halcyon days of warmth, where being carefree is accepted, where, as the song, goes, the living is easy. And, with the demise of summer, well, we all know what’s up next. It seems at certain points in my life it felt like not […]
Themes Galore
Still trying to figure the whole WordPress thing out. I enjoy the fact that I can keep the blog on my site, but I really need to figure out how to make it a site now. Also, for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to incorporate the plugins. Oh well. As for […]