If you were to offer me $10 million to do high school over again, I would turn you down before you could finish your sentence. It wouldn’t matter if I were allowed to take with me all the hindsight I’ve collected since tossing my mortar board out the window of my mother’s white Toyota Corolla [...]
In Backwards and In High Heels, CityBeat, School, The Column, Writing on
8 July 2010 with 9 comments
I ran into the mother of one of Ruby’s little classmates yesterday when I was picking my girl up from school. We’d barely gotten past the daily niceties when she said, “Well, I got my pink slip today.” She’s a teacher and like previous years, as the state of California faces a never-ending and unfathomable [...]
In Government, Human Rights, Politics, School on
4 March 2010 with 1 comment
On the heels of the “ghetto-party” drama at the esteemed University of California, San Diego this week—which I will be writing about shortly, believe you me, oh yes I will—my husband’s business partner found a note on the ground, lost by, presumably, one of the University’s fine, over-achieving students. It concerns me how this individual [...]
In Bits & Pieces, Life, Mental Health Break, Poetry (Mine or others), School, Smidgen, WTF on
18 February 2010 with 8 comments
Next week is Staff Appreciation week at Ruby’s school and since everything seems to be about Ruby’s school these days, I thought I’d share this gem, sent to me by my friend The Lethal Weapon. You know who you are.
In Bits & Pieces, School on
29 January 2010 with 3 comments