Category: irony

I’ve been thinking about all the preparing we humans tend to do in order to be Super Ready for All the Things. My Kid 2 is overseas right now, teaching English to small Lithuanian children and eating her body weight in beautiful European cheeses. Before she left, she did everything right, including notifying her bank that

Funny as in ha-ha-ha, sometimes. Funny as in hmm, that’s odd, more times. Funny as in IRONIC, most times. Why is it, do you think, that we (me, my family, like that) keep having the same struggles over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and

You know the most interesting books to read are the ones with interesting characters experiencing all manner of tension? When I teach writing classes, especially to kids and teens, we talk a lot about tension and conflict and how we really want lots of it in out books. But want to know something? It’s not