of “chick-lit” - what are the best books to read? The Devil Wears Prada comes to mind… what else? I’m thinking of reading 5-6 books that sold well, are on the smarter end of the spectrum writing-wise, and that are set in different worlds (ie, I don’t want to read only about women [...]
Pretty much all the teaching staff with the same sore throat and headache. Three or four people out every day. One boy jumps another after school at the start of the week, one of those things where you cannot imagine what
anyone had to prove as the aggressor is taller than most teachers and older than [...]
Kloe wants to know what you’re missing, what you’ve lost… real or metaphorical. Go to her site and drop her a line, or answer on your blog.
Because I was in Turkey for a year, I’ve lost some of my connectedness in NYC, some of my sense of being in-the-know. I’ve lost a half-dozen single earrings. [...]
Okay… there should be a real post here, blah blah blah about my history with writing classes, but I have a nasty sore throat and my enthusiasm for any sort of effort whatsoever is at a bare minimum, so let me cut to the chase: I just registered for an 8 week class at MediaBistro: [...]
This one’s an assembly line making little LEGO cars. I wonder, if you had enough LEGOs and enough engineers, could you make robots make robots? LOL.
This should have been a book that everyone was talking about last year - and maybe it was, but I never heard of it until I found it on a list of best new novels by Latino writers. It’s also been on lists of best new novels, period.
She clutched his hand and pressed close [...]
(I have to use the zero to make this less google-able by my kids).
I love planning things very intensely, then watching them unfold, hopefully smoothly, and this year’s Science Exp0 was perfect in this regard. Hours of time put into a schedule paid off; everyone knew where to go when, small discrepancies - like judges [...]
Wednesday - prep day - was harder than Thursday. My team agreed to help the kids work on their projects all day Wednesday - it’s sort of a school tradition. I had what seemed like a workable plan for dividing the kids up into 2 rooms for computer use and printing, and 2 rooms for [...]
I’m not sure what to make of the repeated searches for “k1ll ms. fr1zzle” and “ms. fr1zzle sucks” that have led people to my blog in the last couple of days. I doubt they have anything to do with me, but the only other ms. frizzle I know is my inspiration, an orange-haired science teacher [...]
1. Turns out that if you keep your laptop plugged in all the time, it’s always charged… right up until the moment, two-and-one-half years later, when it no longer functions at all unless plugged in. Yes, I’d heard this. No, for some inexplicable reason I had not actually chosen to believe it. Count me a [...]
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