Water Color
Le vingt-cinq décembre 2021 It is really hard to type with a splinted finger. Handwriting is out, hence the stickers, but I am determined to…
How the Virus Couldn’t Steal Christmas
Every Burk at the Motel liked Christmas a LOT, But the Virus, still seething and stealing, did not. It had started the year taking back…
Enchantée
Today in French class I launch the first lesson I will not finish. Only three blocks left (per section) before the end of the year,…
Easy “A”
“I turned that in!” “I gave that to you!” “Oh that? I never got that.” The grading deadline for the first nine weeks clamps down like…
Curriculum Vitae
To say that I can teach French because I speak it is like saying that because I drive a car, I could build one. From…
Subsuit
I am not a real teacher, though I play one on TV… I really wish I hadn’t given away my sub suit. Got rid of…
Fortunately
In the fall of 2015, as close to my son’s birthday as I could get it wearing my universe-ordering pants, the International Men’s Bike Race…
Solstice
You know it’s been a weird year when you pick up your boy on the last day of school and he gets in the car…
Spotify Girl
You would think I crawled out of a hole. Prior to this month, I could no more get a song to play on my cell…
Native Species
Terra mater Gardening with mom. More like moving rocks and getting bossed around in the dirt, but I undertake it willingly on this New England…
Walking Hope
From a liturgy of those setting off on a pilgrimage: “Be for them, Lord, a defense against emergency, a harbor in shipwreck, a refuge in…
“It is small but still good”
Words in a text I receive from Ellie… as the caption to a photo of a lopsided little snowman built on a patio table in…
A Single Step
Peregrination [perəɡrəˈnāSH(ə)n] NOUN: a journey, especially a long or meandering one. Synonyms: travels · wanderings · journey · expedition · exploration ·excursion · perambulation · trek · trip · odyssey Day One (almost): I’m doing it. I’ve always wanted to…
Please Point Me to the Tofu Aisle
Snow and iced in for a couple of days, I am finishing old posts. Here’s one from the week before Christmas. The way I know…
The Last Time I Saw You
A year ago today, a dear friend died. RED are her initials. We are remembering her in grief and thanksgiving, sadness and joy, hope and…
Mom Ski
Sure, I ski. In my dreams, anyway, and on accident reports. Which is good, because in the same week she goes back to school, Sophie…
The Magic of Disney
NOTE: This account of our family trip to Disney, January 2012, is going to make a lot more sense when I post the account of…
Souvenirs 