Sassafras Mama

Snow shovels, a sharp-edged ice-cracking shovel, ice melt, and the outdoor broom spend their winter on my front porch, ready for duty.   ...

T and I were out in public, as we occasionally are on the weekend, when she spotted a Dr. Suess book and announced that she didn’t know tha...

A read of my postings for the last 3 months reveals one long whine about the cold and snowy Winter we had around here.  In my defense, in t...

We all know that Lucy is the boss of JT.  

The backstory:   I have long like to joke about my permanent record, a notion that actually frightened me when I was a kid.  Now that I’m a...

When JT was a first grader he would refer to himself as a little boy.  I was always charmed by those references.  These days there is a dee...

As I write, there is a brilliant sunlight outside.  But it’s late March and though Spring is on the calendar, Winter is having its last gas...

Among his strongest passions, sports tops out at number one for JT.  He watches ESPN daily and his iPad is filled with assorted apps to gen...

Last night a thunderstorm came through and dropped some serious rain upon us.  It says a lot about our Winter that rain with temps in the...

Teaching Middle School after years of teaching older students has been an epiphany for me.  While it is new and the comparisons are fresh i...