Hello Friends, You’re alone. Alone, and out to fix all the wrongs done to you in recent years. Wrongs perpetrated by one person in particular. The end-result of a complicated relationship that had only recently concluded. Or did it? You can’t trust anyone, because you never know who’s actually on your side. And sometimes it…
Hello Friends, I’m going to say something brave. This season of American Horror Story sucked. Now, don’t hate me. And before you all get your Stevie Nicks knickers all up in a wad, let me explain. I really love the American Horror Story franchise. I’ve been a fan from the very start of the first…
It’s that time of year again. No, not when we spontaneously buy full-year gym memberships in effort to help forge the new you, only to go once and ultimately never again after accidentally letting one rip during a downward-dog. …although, it is that time of year too. I’m talking about that time of year when…
Hello Friends, In September of 2009 I had two things going for me: I had just procured a gig as a substitute teacher in a new district, and… ….a book I had been waiting quite some time for had been released. Now, anyone familiar with the field of education (or, more specifically, the world of…
Hello Friends, The theater is beautiful and intricate, but small. Some might call it quaint, others would say humble. Me, I’m too busy being mangled in my cramped seat to think about anything other than how I was going to scratch my ankle with such circumstantial T-Rex arms. And all I smell is Chipotle Grill….
Hello Friends, Time is a funny thing. It’s one of the few aspects of our lives, outside of ourselves, that is truly relative. Sure, it’s constant, and flies, and is of the essence, and waits for no [wo]man, and is on my side (yes, it is), but it’s also deeply personal. It could feel like…
Hello Friends, As WORLD WAR Z came to a close, as the credits began to roll and the theater lights illuminated, two things immediately came to mind: 1) It was absolutely nothing like the book, and 2) I didn’t really mind because it was actually a relatively decent zombie flick. Now settle down all you…
Hello Friends, Being a parent often means sacrifice. Sometimes that sacrifice is huge, like a career or outlandish dream, and sometimes it’s much smaller, like a favorite shirt covered in spit-up or watching the “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” in lieu of, say, the Mets… losing… again. And then sometimes that sacrifice is so monumental it means…
Hello Friends… …And there goes the 2012-13 school year, and with it another graduating class. They have their whole lives ahead of them now. Careers. Love. Friendships. Mortgages. Wrong choices and not-so wrong ones. Really wrong choices. A potentially endless horizon of possibilities. And they’ll be successful too… most of them, anyway. As long as…
Hiya Kids, Once upon a time I helped set the back of a classroom on fire. It’s true. We had a sub that day. She left in tears. Another time I somehow managed to gain early access to a dozen frogs meant for dissection, and cut off the majority of their amphibious fingers so that…