I have a need for silence.
Sure, I love the sound of padded puppy feet running across the tile early in the morning.  And I adore the childish chatter in a third grade classroom.  I love the sound of football stadiums and the roar that stays in my ears for hours after a worth-the-road-trip concert.  And, [...]

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Daddy said, “Well, she’s my favorite now, but I didn’t even like her at one time.”  And Russ probably agrees.
Middle school kids think she’s the raddest thing ever.
Sisser sports cowboy boots and braided pigtails.
Her coach said, “Yeah, she’s fast if fast means slow.”
She’s a Camp Lake Stephens rockstar.
Sisser’ll watch three movies in one day with [...]

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I rounded the corner onto the third grade hall this morning and stopped.  There, sitting quietly against the wall were nineteen brown faces.  Each in turn looked up and smiled at me– the kind of smile that asks, “Did you miss me?  Are you glad I’m back?’
I stifled a giggle and perhaps a tear or [...]

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Deep down inside of me
there lives a little girl
who dreams of books and great masked men
and adventures to unfurl.
She walks upon clouds and swims in seas
and she dances across the world.
She shouts at mountains and laughs at
mermaids and gypsies and kings.
And late at night she whispers to me,
“It’s you!  It’s you, silly girl,
who dreams these [...]

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There’s something about writing that eases my mind.  Something that clears the cloudiness. 
And I wonder how in the world I managed to go without it for so long.

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Because of Winn Dixie is one of my all time favorite children’s books.  I reckon I like it because there’s just a hint of sadness in it and a little girl who misses her mom.  I can relate to that. 
Then, there’s her daddy, The Preacher, that gives her a list of ten things she might [...]

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Sitting next to Kevin at lunch:
“Ms. Edgar, so this milk come from a chocolate cow or what?”

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I’m not one of those seasoned teachers that has their craft worked out to a smudgeless art.  I’m not one of those cutsie teachers with a cheer pony and a matchy matchy outfit.  No, I’m not that at all.
In fact, today is only number nine of 187 blessed contract days.
My feet look like over-sized, over-stuffed [...]

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Two monitas, los quatro Colombianos y one dinner de sopa mexicana!  Que rico!

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I went to bed at 11:30.
My eyes are swollen.
My hair looks like poo.
My jeans are too tight.
Today could be the day I lose it.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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