Today is Halloween, my birthday, and one of my favorite days of the year. 🎃 My school allows teachers and students to wear costumes, and I’ve got a fun lesson planned of creepy stories (like this true one I wrote last year) and creepy poems (like this one by Annie Neugebauer) to share with my classes.Continue reading “Ms. Juettner is Missing”
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Where Cute Meets Creepy
Not everyone loves Halloween as much as I do. I know, it boggles the mind, but it’s true. Some people just don’t get it. Me? I love all things creepy. Books? Movies? Costumes? Decorations? Urban legends? That tree on the corner that, in just the right light, looks like an old man holding aContinue reading “Where Cute Meets Creepy”
Makeup
A few years ago, I was at a bar with some friends and friends of friends “watching” a Spurs game. (I don’t actually watch basketball, not even when it’s the playoffs. Sorry. But I pretended to watch for a while, I promise.) Over beers, I ended up talking to another fake basketball fan, and somehowContinue reading “Makeup”
