Archive for July, 2009

Hooked on Phonics Must Not Have Worked For Me

I work less than 5 miles from where I graduated high school. On occasion a random teacher will come into the shop.
Just my luck, one came in today. The one I despise with a passion.  The only one who ever kicked me out of their classroom.
He was a horrible teacher. His idea of teaching was [...]

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Not The Kind On Deadliest Catch

I am not sure how the conversation started it may have been all the alcohol but it was hysterical.
A friend was telling us that her daughter was invited over to play at a friends house.   (They are 9 or 10).
The girl left a message on the answering machine wanting to know if she could come [...]

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I have been avoiding checking the mail all week. Not for what would be there, but because of what wouldn’t.  This year and all the years to come there will be no more birthday cards from Grandma.
 
She wrote everyone’s birthdays on her calendar that hung by the phone in the kitchen. She always sent [...]

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