Inspired by Slice of Lisa’s 3 Things post structure from last year, I am going to write 5 Things lists on each of the days with 5 in them. Today I’m going to start with: 5 Things You Need to Know About Me.

Inspired by Slice of Lisa’s 3 Things post structure from last year, I am going to write 5 Things lists on each of the days with 5 in them. Today I’m going to start with: 5 Things You Need to Know About Me.

She was born with a thick head of dark hair. It only got lighter and thicker from there. She never had that time when it fell out like happens with a lot of babies. She never even really had that “baby” kind of hair. You know what I mean? This wispy flyaway pieces. It’s always been like a big kid hair.
Continue readingOur public library is pretty awesome. I mean—I haven’t been to any library that wasn’t amazing, but ours is especially great. The only thing that would make it better would be to mediate the parking situation.
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My kids are homebodies by nature. They like to hang in the basement playing video games or invent some new silly trick that involves a lot of creeping around on their bellies while sneaking up on daddy to tap his head. This one is called Daddy Don’t See Me.
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It’s been a long while since I checked in with my fellow slicers. Every year I say I’m going to keep up with Tuesday slicing. I think about you all each week as I get THE email from Two Writing Teachers. I almost always plan to login and put a slice out into the world [wide web]. Yet life usually derails my plans and something else takes priority.
Continue readingIt’s mid-late August and all the teachers have been prepping their rooms for weeks. When I was a classroom teacher, it was about this time every year when I would start having nightmares about students’ desk tags having misspellings. I would also develop an eye twitch that would last until nearly Columbus Day.
Continue readingI’ve got a problem. I think probably most of us do. I am a chronic doom scroller. I cannot tell you how many times I pick up my phone to intentionally send a text or check the weather only to find myself 6 episodes deep in the Shawna-verse.
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Another year written.
I’ve been slicing since 2017. Well—slicing in the annual March SOL Challenge. Every year I say that I am going to continue the Tuesday Slice Challenge and I fall off the horse pretty quickly. I’ll blame my ADHD. It’s my both my superpower and my super curse.
Continue readingFamily days are the best days. After packing up we started the drive to the resort. I only heard, are we there yet one time. We were exactly 3 minutes from Great Grandpa’s house filling up the fast tank.
Continue readingWe take the kids on a little getaway once or twice a year. It’s just to a little resort with indoor and outdoor pools. There’s tennis and a basketball court. They used to have mini golf back in the day.
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