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Dear Muir Lake Community:
Please do not speak to my mentally disabled daughter without introducing yourself to me. It isn’t appropriate. Oh, I’m sure you’ve heard — in the faculty lunchroom and at parents’ meetings — that I’m a...
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Update on Homeschooling
People ask me occasionally how homeschooling is going. There are days when I’d like to drop-kick my beloved children down the hill and into the lake — ice bedamned — but overall, we’re really happy...
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Year End Evaluation
My birthday is New Year’s Eve, and for many years, I’ve spent the day evaluating the previous year, and setting goals for the upcoming year. Not resolutions, per se, just goals to direct my focus. This...
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Some Days Are Diamonds
The kids and I started a poetry unit this week. First, we read poetry, ranging from Shel Silverstein to William Blake. Today we started writing our own. The first poem we tried was a “Diamante.”...
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Some Days Are Coal
Just in case any of you think I’m a homeschooling paragon of virtue, let me tell you about today. I made my daughter cry. Yes, I am a heel, and a scoundrel, and I do not deserve to be raising this...
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More Crappy Poetry
Monday, the kids and I will do one more poem, a bio poem this time. I’m hoping this one will be structured and concrete enough not to hit Girly Girl’s panic button. Then I’ll move her on to a character...
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Living in Snow, Part 1
Something big happened to me this weekend: I stopped being afraid of snow. When I signed our family up for the Weekend Snow Shelter class through the University of Calgary’s Outdoor Centre, I was...
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A Thing With Feathers
Remember that glimmer of hope I expressed five days ago about my daughter’s education? Hope is a thing with feathers. Open your hands, and it will take wing and fly away. Hold it too tight, and you’ll...
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The Dangers of Googling
Oh, deepest irony! I wanted to know the exact title of the Parkland County administrator who was so terrible to me last summer when I dared to complain that my daughter — who had full inclusion — was...
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Choosing Battles
Well, that was no surprise. Mars called Parkland Schools Monday morning. The woman he needed to talk to wasn’t available, so he left a message. She called him back at 4:50 p.m. But then, I guess she...
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Wait … They Said WE Were the Problem!
I was checking something on my blog’s Dashboard today, and I found this entry, which I wrote in September 2012 and thought I had posted. I’m posting it now because I think these things need to be said...
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Another Hill Not to Die On
Well, our former school district is in the news this week. A school bus driver was caught on video texting and taking a cell phone call while driving children. But that was last week’s news. The news...
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