. . that on the fist night of summer, and no matter how old I get, I feel like I’m still eighteen. I feel like I have ten weeks ahead of me to do everything I need to do before everyone goes off to college. I feel like I want to stay out too late, party too much, and drive in cars that go too fast. I feel like I want to walk on train tracks, throw rocks in rivers, go to mid-day movies, and spend hours doing nothing at all. I feel like I want to sleep in late, go to the beach mid-day, and come home too late for supper. I feel like I want to hang out around a camp fire long past mid-night and sing out-of-key Pearl Jam songs. Read the rest of this entry
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links I love
One I’m suffering from crippling writer’s block – and to be honest, I’m okay with it right now. With the new school year just 10 days away, my brain isn’t really into waxing poetic. Instead, I have dozens of ideas knocking around in my brain, and no desire to commit those ideas to the page.
Tonight, to help me along, I made a jar – a blog jar, like a chore jar, but you know for grown-ups with a freakish love of new media. Tonight I picked links I love — so I’m passing on some good stuff I’ve stumbled across recently–
For the parenting and teacher types who stop by here, an interesting analysis of teen behavior.
For my fellow bleeding hearts, a link that’s been kicking around FB all day, a look at how hollowed the area of the new community center really is. By the way more on this soon, I’m kinda pissy about the first amendment thing, I’m entirely pissy how certain folks are making hay of this -
For my friends with too many tomatoes - a homemade tomato soup
Again for the teacher types – a woman with a lovely organized classroom – she is an elemntary teacher, but I’ve been working her tips in all summer.
Finally a little something that I’ve been dwelling on this week. Eminem’s new video is absolutley one of the most beautiful videos I’ve seen in a long time. But, as Jezebel puts it, “It’s not a public service announcement, it’s just a perspective.”
Top Five
top five things I love about summer
5. long days
4. soft serve ice cream
3. swimming
2. produce
1. picnics
top five things I’m reading right now
5. David Seadaris
4. local newspapers
3. books about organizing
2. books about teaching
1. Confessions of an Ugly Step-Sister
top five things I am cooking right now
5. burgers
4. potato salad
3. egg sandwiches
2. orange whips
1. rhubarb bars
Top five things I’m watching this summer
5. West Wing
4. Kai’s hair growing
3. My scar healing
2. Keegan’s step steadying
1. my garden growing
Top five things left to do this summer
5. organize my classroom
4. finish my curriculum
3. head to a pig roast in western NY
2. enjoy the long days
1. ride with my children on the same carousel that my gram used to take me and my cousins on every year in August.