July 2009
1 post
Market Day
June 25 was our theme day; Market Day. Before theme day, we even took the kids to a grocery store and bought some things to practice our shopping skills.
For Market Day, the children were divided into AM and PM groups (it was a half day for students, and a busy full day for teachers). They came to school with one parent/guardian who helped them shop.
Each classroom was a store - Bakery,...
March 2008
1 post
Intimacy
Last night, after our 7 hour car ride home (due to snow), we drove slowly by an apartment building and I witnessed a young college couple “doing it” in front of their window. At first I looked up, and saw just a guy standing close to the window without his shirt. I thought, “weird, why is he standing in the window without his shirt on?” Then, I noticed a female’s face...
February 2008
1 post
Step-Fatographer
Last night I dreamt my stepfather was a photographer in the southwest. He took photographs of people wearing bolo ties, cowboy hats and crisp country and western shirts. They were pasted on tall billboards that hung over vast blank desert. On his kitchen table I found a postcard with his work on it, as well as a self portrait. He looked happy, and younger.
January 2008
3 posts
The Bald Eagle
My brother and I found it in the field next to our house. He poked at it with a stick, until Dad yelled at us to leave it alone. “It’s fine the way it is,” he said.
Lakerol
I can’t stop eating them, yet with each bite I think about developing a brain tumor
December 2007
4 posts
Grouper (Ma Fama) →
Best Boyfriend Award
They are sprawled out on a bench between the F’s and J’s. One of them holds an iPod blaring poppy hip hop music. The other one has a cell phone pressed to his face. Kids, you think. 8th Graders.
“I love you so much, baby.” the one on the cell phone jokes. They both crack up.
You go to the next aisle, and look at the books of authors who begin with M.
“So...
'The Security Dome' (Story Idea)
At the center, which was near the border of Kansas and Nebraska, the distance between it and the ground was 1000 feet. Obviously not high enough to fly a large jet, but no one was allowed to leave anyhow. ‘The Security Dome’ as they called it, was finished in 2010. It only took one year to build. So many people were willing to help.
It’s now just known as, ‘the...
