To celebrate my father-in-law’s 79th birthday, my mother-in-law took us out to dinner at the SeaGrille last night. My in-laws both ordered blue fish which is never on my culinary radar. Charlie chose the Fisherman’s Platter because he always goes for the most bang for your buck! Instead of choosing my usual stuffed shrimp or broiled [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Living like Free Form Ravioli
Posted in Food, Life, tagged food, life, Nantucket, summer on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Devouring books whole
Posted in Books, Jane Austen, tagged Books, Jane Austen on June 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I had thirty pages left in the Bill Bryson book I was reading, so I ventured into town yesterday hoping to find something fun to read. I packed two other books with me on this trip, but I wasn’t in the mood to read about education and learning theories right now. I’m on vacation! Here [...]
An ode to Cool Whip
Posted in Food, tagged Cool Whip, desserts, food on June 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I made two pies Cream cheese, Cool Whip, powdered sugar, and vanilla Blended with a mixer older than me Scooped into graham cracker crusts Topped with fresh island berries Eat less dinner Consume more pie! Homemade whipped cream is absolutely sublime – a heavenly blend of the most basic, real ingredients. Cream. Powdered sugar. [...]
Footprints on the beach
Posted in Kids, Life, tagged beach, kids, life, Nantucket on June 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Every year my family spends three to four weeks on the island of Nantucket. My in-laws have a house here and they are more than generous in sharing it with all of us. If you’ve never been, Nantucket is a small island 30 miles south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. With miles and miles of beaches, [...]
Best dog in the world
Posted in dogs, tagged dogs on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Maddie… was 2.7 pounds when we adopted her fit in the palm of my hand when we took her home would steal our socks off our feet by tugging at them when she wanted to play didn’t really bark hated when she had bows on [...]
Flip flops and Mary Janes
Posted in dogs, Life, tagged dogs, kids, life, shoes on June 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I learned to tie my shoes when I was about five years old. We lived in an apartment in the Bronx and my mother had spent all morning trying to get me to tie my shoes. I couldn’t do it. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t tie my shoes! The way I [...]
Circling, circling, circling
Posted in dogs, tagged dogs, pets on June 23, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Circling, circling, circling until she would collapse, that is how our beloved pet spent her last five days on this earth. Last Wednesday we took our 13 year old shih tzu to the vet for her annual check-up. Other than some heinously bad breath, sweet little Maddie was a healthy, happy, blind as a bat, [...]
Tis a Gift to be Simple…
Posted in Education on June 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite hymns comes from the Shakers - Simple Gifts. The tune itself is simple yet beautiful, the words equally so. ‘Tis a gift to be simple, ’tis a gift to be free,’Tis a gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, ‘Twill be in [...]
Up in the air
Posted in Education on June 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
To be honest, I throw like a girl. I can’t really catch either (I’ve been known to duck). But put me in the classroom and I can juggle with the best of them! I had twenty students this past year with the widest variance in abilities and readiness I’ve ever seen in one classroom. I [...]
Comfort zones
Posted in Education, tagged learning, writing on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the reasons I began writing this blog is to force myself out of my comfort zone. I’m an avid reader and always have been. I am comfortable with a book in hand, but I have never felt comfortable writing which I explained in an earlier post, I Hate Writing. Recently I read a book about teaching [...]
