10 Favorite Olympic Athletes of All Time

Posted by on Aug 19, 2008 in dish | 0 comments We’re home from school today (scary storm out there not raining on us right now, but oh well), so let’s catch up on some blog stuff. Bruce Jenner – Decathlons are for badasses.Jackie Joyner-Kersee – Heptathlons are for female badasses. And she won three Olympic medals (two golds, one silver) in it!Edwin Moses – Do you have any idea how hard it is to run the 400...
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Welcome Back to School! Or Not…

Posted by on Aug 18, 2008 in dish | 0 comments First day of school today! The kids actually popped out of bed this morning and got dressed with very little prodding (or begging, or threats). Got the cute back to school pic, fed them real breakfast–chocolate chip pancakes, thank you very much!–and sent Frick off to the school bus. First day in middle school! Good thing he was early, because so was the bus. Frack is loving being...
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Ouch!!

Posted by on Aug 13, 2008 in dish | 4 comments Today was the big go-to-the-Convention-Center-for-some-learnin’ day (aka “Professional Development Day”). These are all-day extravaganzas with breakout sessions and usually a vendor exhibit with all manner of educational items for sale. Not that anyone has any money to buy anything in this lean year, but there you go.So I’m strolling the booths when I get accosted by a...
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Mmm…New Pencil Smell

Posted by on Aug 11, 2008 in dish | 1 comment Teachers go back to school today for pre-planning (which is kind of a redundancy, since “planning” implies something you do ahead of time, but I digress). The first week of school where teachers are back but students aren’t are kind of the back bar of teaching. It’s all the inner workings without all that messy teaching and grading going on. Just the adults, doing their...
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Whither High Concept?

Posted by on Aug 7, 2008 in dish | 2 comments One grace note to my Dream Agent smackdown at National was that she praised me for my ability to create a high concept story. I always thought “high concept” meant something truly groundbreaking and new, which meant that there was no way in Hades I’d ever figure out how to do it.However, Dream Agent explained that an ability to capture the essence of the book in a fresh way...
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