Today we got the text. The one every parents dreads. We are on lockdown. I don’t know what’s happening. I love you. In a heartbeat, I went from working productively on an email about the challenges facing teachers today (no lie), to shaking uncontrollably on my couch and fighting back tears as I scoured Facebook,…
Chances are, if you identify as female, you probably need to stop apologizing. Pronto! And no, I’m actually not sorry for pointing that out. Last week my daughter and I went prom dress shopping. We had an amazing time. And she got the perfect dress. I never understood the phrase “her face lit up with…
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, by Benjamin Stevenson is one of those books I was so excited to get my hands on. I read a lot of thrillers and mysteries and so I’m on a lot of lists that recommend these sorts of books. One of my favorites is Murder By the Book,…
Are you familiar with Robert Knox’s 10 Commandments of Detective Fiction? I wasn’t until recently. But if you want to write a mystery you might want to acquaint yourself with them. And then feel free to break them. I read and write a lot of thrillers. I’ve tried my had at writing ghost stories. In…
You are probably familiar with the Writing Process. You’ve likely been using it since elementary school. Maybe you even had one of those clip charts where you moved your clothespin up or down through the process: prewrite, draft, revise, edit, publish. (What can I say? Once a teacher, always a teacher.) Well, this post is…
My daughter was sitting in the kitchen after school watching a replay of the daily announcements. They post them on the school’s webpage, and sometimes they are very entertaining. Although not always in a good way. I was prepping dinner, so I was only half listening, but I heard something about a new attendance initiative….
