My parents are cool. They just are. Daddy’s funny and I’ll always be his girl. I call him when I have fender benders or need money. (Cause Mom’s hard core and kinda scares me and Daddy’s not afraid of anything. Except wasps.) But I digress. This post is about Mom and me and late nights […]

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-I’ve been out of school for five days. -I really like sunshine. -So, I took a little vacation. -No internet. -No TV. -It’s fun to disconnect sometimes. -I had LOTS of emails to return. -One was from Pat. He submitted something I wrote to The Local Voice. -Dude! They published it! -I go back to […]

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Long ago and far away, I posted about a weekend. Summer asked me for pictures and I finally figured it out. Well, Blake did. So, enjoy.

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Yes, I really taught all of these children and yes, they really said all of these things. From Mississippi 4th graders “It feels like a fluffy cloud when I hug you.”   Me: “Do you think I could wear your jacket?” cute boy that’s smarter than he realizes:  “Prolly not.” Me: “Why not?” cute boy that’s […]

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My parents have been married for 34 years today.  34 years.  I talked to them both about it yesterday for awhile and am still just amazed.  That is SO LONG.  I told Momma that that was like half of her life and she quickly informed me, “Honey, that it was more than half of my life.”  I […]

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Home for me is a house on a hill in Nowhere, Mississippi. There’s an old Dodge pickup in the driveway that smells like Skoal and sawdust and drives like a dream and pots on the sidewalk with flowers brimming over their sides. My mother is there her hands covered in earth and sweat dripping from […]

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I’ve always loved the water. I love the way that chlorine smells and the feeling my skin has when I finally pull myself onto the pool deck. It feels like it’s been ages since I’ve gotten to swim, but today a friend and I ventured out to the new pool in a park nearby. Now, […]

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I spent the weekend at a teacher’s conference in Cali.  It was good fun and I learned lots, met lots of people, and saw some really fast salsa dancing.  I also played basketball with a crowd of teachers from Colegio Bolivar on Friday afternoon.  They play harder than we play here and there were fewer […]

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So, all because I blog and I read blogs, I got a free CD!  I love Jesus.  I love music.  I love free.  I’d like to thank the Academy because everyone thanks the Academy, Matt because it’s his CD and I love the title and the music, and Boomama cause she keeps me in the know […]

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Families are dysfunctional. Sure, there are degrees of dysfunction and I get that, but my family, well, we’re sort of functionally dysfunctional. And I couldn’t be happier that my family is my family. No, I can’t pick favorites, but the highlight today is my sister. Sisser, that is. She wrote a paper for school a […]

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