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It’s been quite the stressful week. Teaching three different subjects means having three different lesson plans. Kinda hard to put together lesson plans when you’re grading papers until midnight, or later. But, next week should be better. I was able to get a little tiny bit ahead of the curve today in the planning. Because…

Wow. I guess I’ve been pretty lucky. Since Shara was first published in 2003, I’ve never really had a bad review. It seems everyone either liked the book, or just didn’t say anything about it. Until a couple of days ago. An Amazon reviewer really disliked my little novel. It really is like having someone…

Oh dear Lord, please take away this friggin’ ice so my kids can go back to school … before I pinch their heads off. School was out again today. And it’s closed tomorrow. The kids are out. I’m off work. We’ll all be stuck in teh house together. Again. They’re bored, picking on each other,…

Ah, being a teacher is paying off. I’m off work today because of MLK Day. I got a call from a vice principal telling me Western  Heights is closed tomorrow. Woohoo! Then we learned my kids’ schools are closed tomorrow, too. Another day of cabin fever. Well, another day to get some stuff done at…

The ice came down yesterday, but the world did not end. What does this prove? That television “news” people are soulless vultures hoping for a carcass to feed upon. For days we were told to stock up on food, to expect to be without power for days and days, that we’d be covered in two…

Tune in to the Darker Side of the Moon radio program tonight at 10 p.m. and listen to me stammer and drawl about werewolves, writing and whatever. I gotta throw out a plug for Angeline Hawkes’ and Chris Fulbright’s novella Then Comes the Child. This is a really good long story that’s getting recommendations for…

I’ve been staring at the computer for hours and hours this afternoon/evening. My eyes are burning. I’m sitting on a load of unfolded laundry and there’s a stack of dishes in the sink that can’t go into the dishwasher until the clean dishes are put away. Why? Well, it started in my first block class…

I reported to work today. Pretty interesting. There was a whole crop of new teachers … about eight of us. Many of us are there with alternative certification, too. The teachers and administration all seem pretty nice. Sounds like they don’t take any crap from the kids; from what the VP said, he suspends liberally.…

I bought a broadband router today. I’m sitting in a recliner, writing a blog and hoping the Sooners will wake up and crush Boise State like they’re supposed to. I suspect the second half will go better than the first; Adrian Peterson gets better in the second half. The wireless is very nice, especially since…

Oh, everybody else will do it. This past year was good and bad. As you may recall, when the year began I was still just working part time as public relations director for the South Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce. It was a cushy job that wasn’t too bad, other than being part time for…