My heart on my sleeve…..so to speak

I love music…all kinds of music. It’s like oxygen to me – I can’t imagine a day without it. It has punctuated the best moments in my life and seen me through the most difficult. It can completely transport me back in time to a moment, a friend, an experience in a mere three notes. [...]

The reindeer at the end of the street

Imagine waking up to find this roaming around your front lawn! LOL! Seriously, this is part of my Dad’s annual Christmas display “extravaganza”. As long as I can remember (and even before that, I’m told) my Dad has been making wooden Christmas displays for his front lawn. As you can imagine, he’s now got quite the [...]

Take a cha-cha-cha-chance….

The funniest thing happened to me this morning. I always try to ensure that the last song I hear in the car is a good one because, inevitably,  I wind up humming it all day whether I like it or not. I’d had kind of a sad song stuck in my head when I woke up [...]

…the day we did the “b” times table

I’ve just spent about two hours doing sixth grade algebra. Why is it that they feel the need to change “how” they teach things like math? Honestly….it eludes me. There’s this new thing they’re doing these days called “guessing” – where you guess the answer, test your “guess” in the equation, then once you’ve finally “guessed” [...]