Well, I wanted to bake a cake, but it just didn't seem feasible, so instead I dug out an item I have hundreds of and put it to some use: a cassette tape case, specifically my solo music project cassette case from 10 yrs. ago, The Microclosets. I sea...

I am a teacher. Behavior Specialist. One day a boy came to middle school wearing a hat made to look like a block of cheese, like one of those Green Bay Packer hats. Right away, before school even started, kids starting asking him questions about it...

I don't have parents. They worked for the CIA ( I was told) and then killed on a mission in Manitoba. But I do have family. My sweet gullible son. Age 9. I fully led him into it, but with his love of spys and wantnot, he was primed. I said...

Its entirely unfair to pose this question to a middle school teacher such as myself, seeing as I find untold ('til now) quantities of notes, clothing, and random what-nots on the floor, in the seats, near the garbage of my classroom. Today, I will s...

FIST, SHAKEN Life's myriad social commitments have drawn me to the roads of our sleepy hamlet, Mendocino, and neighboring towns in search of birthday parties and the like. Fuel prices incite my ire, but not more than irresponsible motorists, who ...