Madrid 2008
Interviewing on steroids 2008 was a success. I hired quite a few teachers and interviewed at least 60. This year was a lot less distressing than the last. I have more confidence in my discerning abilities and could pretty much make a decision after five minutes with a candidate. I hired a math teacher who [...]
High Waisted Slacks
I’m digging the cute new high waisted slacks at Express. I want some even, but I just know that when I try them on they will come up to my bra line and double as the second line of defense against gravity. It’s really all I have to work with at 5 [...]
Push and Squirt
Sometimes I just don’t learn. I went shopping today for travel sized soaps, toothpaste and other hygienic stuff at the Wal-mart for lunch today. I spied a new line of “natural” body wash and lotion products with a big grapefruit on the label just calling out my name. Grapefruit is one of the few fragrances [...]
My 12 year old Shemo
Reason for therapy #5444
Shemo: “You just don’t understand what it’s like to be 12, life is very hard.”
Me: “Yes I do, I was 12 too and life was hard.”
Buddha: “Yip, we’ve been there done that.”
Shemo: “No, it’s much harder to be 12 now.”
Me: “Trust me I understand. You have all these new hormones you [...]
Under the Banner of Polygamy
The recent polygamist raids in Texas have had me thinking about Jon Krakauer’s book, “Under the Banner of Heaven” ….A LOT. I have a lot of literary favorites, but then there are those books that occupy the corners of your mind and simply refuse to leave…ever. “Under the Banner of Heaven” is a written documentary [...]
Things Unsaid
I drove down the street I grew up on today as I dropped the girl off at her dance classes. It was the house where my grandfather had his last conscious memory and that thought triggered in me a memory of my grandfather walking down the street to the Ogden City Mall to visit me [...]
Commuting
W: What’s that noise?
Me: I think it’s my back brakes. Maybe a rock or something?
W: Dude, that doesn’t sound like a rock…
Me: Hmm….should we just turn up the radio?
W: Sure, but I’m driving myself to work tomorrow.
Burley, where the air is natural and the look is plaid
I took the boy with me to Twin Falls, Idaho yesterday. It was quite nice..he had a chance to talk my ear off and I had a chance to actually listen. I took him to the Falls and the Snake River gorge and he thought they were both spectacular. [...]