It is late on a Friday night and I am living the dream; writing in my undies and enjoying an adult beverage. Heaven right? Okay, maybe not for you, but this fourth week of school has been pretty rough. The kids are finally getting into their routines, relationships between teachers and students are being squared …
Tomorrow would have been my grandmother’s birthday. I am not sure how old she would have been ; you never asked Lucille Rose how old she was. She was a beautiful, stubborn woman who stressed the importance of manners and always saying thank you. It is also one of my nephew’s birthdays, but their day …
Time is always speeding past us. Always moving forward and going on whether we like it or not. Anniversaries and birthdays come... And often we come up with elaborate ways to celebrate them. In my case, I love to plan and then life does it thing and the plans go to waste because there is …
Today, I had every intention of finishing the poetry post after school was out. Then I read something at lunch that stop me in my tracks. An email informing me that I am now the new English Department Chair. For the past three years there has been a different chair. Each time I found out …
Leaving my neighborhood this morning, I noticed something unusual for a Labor Day morning trash cans lining the curb. This just shouldn't be.. don't my neighbors know that the trash men don't come on holidays. But maybe this year, it is going to be different.. maybe they will come. Maybe America or at least Orlando's waste management company has …
Intense, assertive and talented, Chef Gordon Ramsey is one of the world's most famous chefs. As a devoted fan, I have watched every episode of Kitchen Nightmare's (both U.S. and UK versions), the F-Word and Master Chef as soon as they are available on-line. He has inspired millions of people to go back into the …
Today, probably by the time you read this, I will have already walked back into the cafeteria for the first assembly of the year. Some might imagine that I have spent the summer break with my feet up relaxing at the beach, sleeping in and spending whole days in my pj's. The reality is that …
Once upon a time, I joked about getting a food cart and taking it downtown to feed skinny chicks. Girls who clearly needed to eat, who were an unhealthly kind of skinny. It wasn't a very good joke. It implied that I have a problem with slender women. I don't. There isn't a rivalry between skinny and …
When I was a wee rosebud a teacher introduced me to Shel Silverstein and his marvelously lyrical and whimsical poems. The poem Where the Sidewalks Ends has always captivated me. The first community that I remember living in was Burke Centre, outside Washington, D.C., an ambiguous region known as NOVA. The sidewalks went on for miles and …
This post was going to wait a month so that I could be sure that Luke was going to be staying with me. A week into our relationship I can't imagine life without him. He is my puppy-dog and I am his person. How Luke Came To Live in My Little Yellow House The day …
Lucinda Rose 