Back to School Means Goals

A new school year always means goals to me. Like the goals I create at the beginning of every year, when a new school year starts in September I feel the need to create goals again. Or at least look at the ones I had and reassess. For us the schools start again on Tuesday

My Cheeks were red–All My Cheeks!

      I still have a terrible memory of the year they replaced the small pot-bellied coal stove with an oil burner in our country school. The memory is “burned” into my brain cells. One day, in third grade, I suffered an embarrassing injury. Before the day was through, my cheeks were red; I mean all

In The Middle

This post by Jennifer Flaten After standing in three seemingly endless lines; one to pay for school, one to pick up a combination lock and one for pictures, my girls were officially 8th graders. Once pictures were taken,-I’m amazed that even with today’s technology, school pictures are still as bad as they were when I

The End of Summer – Sort Of by Erin Farwell

School supplies are purchased, twice because the school changed the 7th grade list after we’d already purchased everything on the original list. Initial school clothes are purchased. I say initial because it’s still summer here and a new fall/winter wardrobe will need to be obtained. The same is true of shoes. We bought what is