Or outside the school room as it were. Yesterday, as if I had any doubt, proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that all school lessons don’t come with lesson plans and teacher books. Yesterday, we needed to go grocery shopping and I decided that were going on a field trip. To the grocery store. To learn. Because why? Because the day before yesterday, all three of the kids whined …
2010
I Must Be A Lousy Texan.
I love my state. It’s a part of who I am and I take pride in my heritage. But I have a confession to make. I don’t like EVERYTHING about Texas. I don’t like cowboy boots. For shame! I know! But I’d much rather trade them for something trendier, like this: And the cowboy hats? Sorry, but I don’t wear cowboy hats, either. I won’t judge YOU for wearing them, …
Are you smarter than a 6th grade grammar assignment?
Adjectives — easy peasy, right? I mean, we’re not even talking dangling participles here, we’re just talking about basic grammar. Adjectives describe nouns — how hard can this be? I don’t consider myself a grammar whiz, but I do consider my grammar to be at least above average (when I choose to use it, I choose to ignore it quite frequently, but that’s beside the point.) The point is, that …