My daughter – the one conceived ten years ago this week after a few too many Rolling Rocks while watching that George Clooney movie about Chuck Barris – finished third grade this week. It seems like yesterday that this was her: No. Scratch that. It doesn’t seem like just yesterday. It seems like a million …
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Life’s Little Misguided Instruction Book
Posted on May 2, 2013
Have we all forgotten how to live? Did we ever know in the first place? While being full-on immersed in the book publishing stuff, I’ve been having difficulty focusing on reading books. Instead, I’m taking the iPad to bed every night and reading articles I’ve saved through the day. Which is probably why I’ve had …
Joyce Franklin and the Curse of the Third Grade Teacher
Posted on April 4, 2013
At the beginning of this school year, my daughter’s teacher pulled me aside and asked if I’d read the child’s most recent explanatory letter/manifesto/airing of grievances. “It’s so good,” she said. “I’ve never seen a third grader write like this. She could be a …” Please don’t say it please don’t say it please don’t …
There Doesn’t Seem to Be Anyone Around.
Posted on March 22, 2013
(Every Friday, look for “Seen Your Video.” I’ll toss out a song that meant enough to me way back when to remain lodged in my head today and pick it apart. It’ll be flashbacky fun.) Tiffany, “I Think We’re Alone Now,” 1987 There’s no way this week’s song wasn’t going to be something awful. I spent …
Where the Mom Left Off
Posted on March 8, 2013
I had a blog. I had a blog that led to the writing career I started dreaming about when I was nine years old. You might have read that blog, Poppymom.com. It was around for a long time – about a month shy of eight years. It started when my daughter CJ was three months …
