A skittered (ie, quickly edited into skit-form) version of the great Dickens classic… with hats! We put together quick scripts and a costume box at work to make exam week a little bit merrier. Some plastic chains left over from a Halloween decoration, an electric candle stuck in a cardboard Read more…
I just felt like posting a picture of my little work pal. It’s one of the cork gnomes! (A while back, the knitting group went on a massive springtime campaign to create hundreds of these adorable little gnomes and leave them in places all around Durham. It was hilarious fun.) Read more…
Christmas knitting, that is. You gotta start in July to have any hope of finishing by Christmas! :) I am posting this particularly because I think I was very clever. (Yup, tooting my own horn, here.) So, I’m working on a sweater for a little sweetie pie I know, and Read more…
I’ve always wanted one of these! Of course I just got up in there to see what Paul would say. He said, “You’re gonna get in trouble!” I said I was too cute to get in trouble. (ha!) by
For Easter, I got Jaden and Kyler, and Xak, a butterfly-hatching kit. The kits came with lots of caterpillars, so I brought some of them to the office, too. Here they are, turning into butterflies. We let them go in the Gardens. by
Emily and Angie are on spring break too, and they came to work with me a couple of times. They have been Planning Mischief along the lines of “Ways to Annoy People in Elevators.” I remember enjoying similar pranks at that age – we used to phone the 1-800 numbers Read more…
Teaching & education are my passion. I taught Middle School for ten years, and teaching still has a very big place in my heart. I loved every minute and often visit with my former students, many of whom are all grown up now! Middle school students are right Read more…
I arrange a lot of literary events for work. Conferences, lectures, poetry readings. Sometimes I actually go to them. Sometimes I have to go to them. Often they just feel like more work, which is a pity. But sometimes I actually can forget about the caterer and the taxi arrangements Read more…
I work at the Cardiac Diagnostic Unit in Duke South Hospital and our department head stated that our department name will be changed to the “Cardiac Diagnostics Unit” in the near future. There has been a recent discussion about the proper grammar of this title. We are hoping you can Read more…
I wrote a budget for a group of poets, in very bad haiku by
I’ve always wondered about this one. List of things to do: 1. stop fooling around on the internet and get some work done by