Rachee

While I can attest that The Bee loves her school and I love my job, there are days that beg to be played hooky, days that are just Mental Health* Days and days that the lure of the mattress is too strong to resist. Sigh! Here is one that speaks to anyone who feels like calling in. Sick by Shel…

Golly, The Simpsons have been on since I was in high school! That’s a pretty darn long time ago! Anyhoozie, the very first Halloween episode, Treehouse of Horror, featured Bart and Lisa telling spooky stories. The first is a parody of the Amytiville Horror, the second is a Twilight Zone spoof (It’s a cookbook!) the final is Lisa reading “The…

My memories of the library as a child are being a fugitive (we stayed with a fine), going with Charleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnne as she struggled to find something to occupy Buffy, Leaky, myself and a few, random, tag along, neighborhood kids on summer days and the Cobbs Creek branch being hot. I really didn’t get the obsessive love of reading until later,…

I should have started out with this!I still remember trying to muddle through sonnets and odes and zzzzzzzzzzzz…..Anywhozit, I found this on poets.org. How to Read a Poem: Beginner’s Manual by Pamela Spiro WagnerFirst, forget everything you have learned,that poetry is difficult,that it cannot be appreciated by the likes of you,with your high school equivalency diploma,your steel-tipped boots,or your white-collar…

…Name Yourself Day! Since I have come to like my name after a lifetime of wanting to be Rachel, Stacy or Kim, I am not going to change my name for good. I am going to temporarily change my name today to either “Not Raya” as in, ” I’m not Raya. Sorry, that’s my sister.” “Miss Ashay” (the kids can’t…