I teach at a prep school, so when vacations come, they come in a nice row of days off. So I got up early today, took the kids to daycare, got a coffee at Starbucks (had to wait for the coffee…had to wait for coffee…at STARBUCKS), came home, took the garbage out, let the dog [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
My Teeth are Whiter When I Drink a Latte
Monday, November 12, 2007
I’m back with my writing group, and it feels like we’re getting the band back together. We start tonight and I’m bringing three new friends who write well, so there are seven of us. As far as bands go, we were a pretty prolific group. We stayed together for over a year before we broke [...]
Masterpieces
Monday, November 5, 2007
I heard an interview with a pianist on NPR this morning, and aren’t you impressed that I listen to NPR in the morning? Is there any more pseudo-intellectual acronym-dropping you can do at the lunch table or water cooler? Maybe referring to The Onion, though to properly acronym drop, you’d have to say “The O,” [...]