Dear Google Paris, First, allow me to tell you how much I love you. Well, not necessarily your Paris office since I have not yet visited, but Google. As I say often, I must have been dumber than dirt before you came into my life 19 short years ago. I even made googler into a …
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Cuppycakes
In my humble opinion, the best thing we do at my school is group kids into advisories. I am not sure how long ago we started doing this, to tell you the truth. When I arrived at DA in the fall of 1980, as a just-turned 22 year old, I faced a group of …
More Muffins?
Sister Moo found an incomplete place setting of Fiesta ware for me at Kohl's. The dinner plate was missing. Who cares? I love the color. And I realized that it matches the salt and pepper shaker that she found for me at a yard sale in Spruce Pine. (Turns out that the set belonged to …
Blue
Meet Lightening. My advisory mascot. An African Spotted Water Frog. Oui, une grenouille africaine. One of the girlies brought him in to share with the rest of us. While out and about, roaming around in one of my favorite thrift shops, Pennies for Change, I found a treasure. I am a fan of Henri …
Cooking for me
I love cooking for me. I don't have to worry about what I like (basically everything edible) or dislike (basically not much). I can take leftover stuff and turn it into something pretty good most of the time. And I don't care how many dishes I dirty because I don't mind cleaning up. I had …
“Grateful for everything, entitled to nothing”
This is Jim McIngvale. A man I had never heard of until yesterday. AKA Mattress Mack. The Clarion-Ledger ran an article about him yesterday and that's where I found the quote that is the title of today's post. In today's Durham Herald-Sun newspaper, I read an editorial from the Charlotte Observer. It touched me, so …
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Being real
image: https://www.pinterest.com/explore/the-velveteen-rabbit/?lp=true As Son #1 and Son #2 will tell you, I am a sap when it comes to children's books. I loved reading to those two little critters. The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams was my favorite. At the beginning of this school year, one of my colleagues quoted the Rabbit, using the short …
Dear Ten-Year-Old Teresa
Am I the only one who thinks about this stuff-- Who am I? Why am I the way I am? How did I get to this place? What makes me different than everyone else? I have spent more than a little bit of my time trying to figure out the answers to those questions. I …
Happy New Year!
(Gonza Tacos y Tequila, Durham, NC- site of our faculty party) My new year doesn't begin in January. It begins in August. It has for all but the first five years of my life. For the last 38, I've been in charge, seated behind the "big desk" as a friend used to put it. Well, …
I miss Mayberry
Okay, if you are a Rascal Flatts fan then you know I stole borrowed the title of one of their songs. I don't think they will get upset when they read today's blogpost. I think they will be honored. I have been in a bit of a blue mood the past few days. I've recently read …
the sabbatical chef 