I am currently working on a thousand projects. Some are online, some are offline, some are in the real world, some are in the virtual world, and some are in an imaginary world, all my own.
You can find further musings and ponderings at http://www.ymagination.com.
I am in the middle of writing a number of various fiction stories of varying lengths. I have great fun making my characters talk in circles, climb through labyrinths, go up the down escalator, and experience all other manner of Escher-esque adventures.
By day I teach special education at a public school in New Haven, CT.
By night I administer penicillin, tylenol, motrin, hugs, kisses, discipline, blueberry shampoo, sharpened pencils, lego creations, crayons, dry-erase markers, microwave pizza, corny jokes, irrational anger seemingly springing from nowhere, good advice, ridiculous rules, important life lessons, ridiculous leniency, horrible mixed mesages and Ben and Jerry's ice cream to my two butterscotch-headed sons.
I truly believe plug-in aroma therapy air fresheners are the greatest thing to hit the Western world since the automatic-push-button-roll-down-your-car-window.

My passion is ...

swimming through polluted waters

I know too much about ...

broken dreams

My parents always told me ...

it's all a load of crap

My childhood ambition ...

not to ever get divorced

My favorite memory ...

that's personal

Why I write ...

to avoid the sanitarium

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Nation magazine, The Art of the Tale, Ten Children Left Behind playing congas and harmonicas

My first job ...

dishwasher, waitress, all around toilet scrubber at World Fellowship Center

My best moment ...

cosmic collision

My inspiration ...

Sookie Stackhouse

Education > Early Childhood Ed How children learn

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Many parents today are overwhelmed and busy, burdened with all the responsibilities that comprise the care and safeguarding of not only their children, but of their households, finances, health and, in most cases, their futures. To have casual, seemingly meaningless conversations with our children is often exhausting to us as parents; we have laundry to do, bills to pay, important meetings to attend, meals to cook and bathrooms to scrub.

Yet these everyday conversations with our children do more to benefit them than almost any other parenting or teaching "strategy." Unhurried conversati...

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