Finding Stillness (But Not Kittens)

I’ve spent the past few days setting up stakeouts to stalk a cat. There is a mama cat in my new neighborhood that recently had kittens. My sources say they were born on or around June 1st. No one has seen the kittens yet, but mama cat (who will be properly named once I getContinue reading “Finding Stillness (But Not Kittens)”

Happy Spring!

Hello, World! What have you been up to? Me? Oh, the usual… reading, writing, accumulating pet hair on my clothes, and trying to get seventh graders to understand time management and the consequences of their actions. The time management thing would be easier if any of them could actually read an analog clock. [Here’s anContinue reading “Happy Spring!”

The Beauty of Learning

It’s fun watching learning occur. My parents have a new kitten. She wandered into their yard, a tiny, scrappy, smart little thing, barely big enough to be away from her mother but somehow surviving on her own. They fed her and sweet-talked her from afar until she got curious enough to come inside the house.Continue reading “The Beauty of Learning”