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I’m not a teacher, but I play one on television—er, I mean…I play one a couple times a week. In the form of substitute teaching. Which—when surrounded by twenty-plus kids…

Does this title remind anyone else of a Whatchmacallit? Or make anyone want a candy bar, like me?Maybe not.So today has been weird. Not weird in the Inception or Limitless…

Yeah, yeah, Thanksgiving was three days ago, but “better late than never” is a mantra I live by. Like, literally, because I am always…late. For everything.So, in honor of Thanksgiving,…

Somewhere out there in the confusing universe otherwise known as MY LIFE, there is a conspiracy brewing. One in which little elves are floating above my head, whispering excitedly as…

So it’s National Novel Writing Month, which means I’m supposed to be writing a whole book in November. Like, with a beginning, middle, and end. Like, with characters who have…

So it’s that time of year again. Every year this same week, I ask my kids for a Christmas list. More like I threaten them with coal in their stockings…

So it’s that time of year again. Every year this same week, I ask my kids for a Christmas list. More like I threaten them with coal in their stockings…

A whole heck of a lot, that's what.So a couple days ago I sent out an email to three of my closest friends, and it went something like this:“I need…

Okay, confession time: I’m not a shopper. There, I said it. I feel like a new person…like I just came out of the (clothing) closet, so to speak.It’s not so…

So…sleep and I are experiencing a little bump in our relationship. And by bump, I mean that I love it and it hates me. It isn’t speaking to me anymore.…