Why Does Everyone Love Heidi Klum So Much?

The Met Gala looks were a real disappointment this year.  I haven’t been feeling Marc Jacobs for a while now (sorry ED).  His short dress edict bombed.  The women look horrible!  They all wear heels that are too high that over-accentuate their boney calves and the short dresses just make them all look like cheap [...]

I have a Five Minute Break

I’m visiting:
Small Stump to check out flowers
Miss Pickering because she has an amazing all-green arrangement
Martha Stewart’s Twitter because she is hysterical.  What’s up with the Ted Turner obsession?
Berkeley Parent’s Network for a tree trimmer/cutter-downer
The pinkness I missed last weekend in NYC
Let’s escape!
PS: Don’t forget Paris!  I want those effing Chanel tights!
PPS: and eating Thai Vegetable [...]

“Babytime:” courtesy of an anonymous person in an office with the door open in the Mills College Library

“So I was sitting there at Park Chow last night, and I look around and there are babies EVERYWHERE, and I’m like, what is this?  what are all these babies doing here? and then I realize it’s babytime–5PM!  What other normal person eats dinner at 5 o’clock?  Babytime!  [other person in the conversation mutters uninteligibly] [...]

Meta-Blahghe

I just discovered the Ideas blog on the NY Times website while procrastinating the inevitable: completion of “Element K” a series of technology tutorials and assessments all teachers must complete for a teaching credential.  It’s estimated the tutorials and assessments amount to approximately 14 hours of un-fun screen time.   
I love the randomness of “Ideas.” [...]

Saddleshoos is BACK!

It was a long week and a long weekend, but we have a new administration (almost) it’s Thanksgiving break (almost) and Saddleshoos is back!
Once again, a big thank you to Refinery29 for having Saddleshoos’ back!
I love that they got saddle shoes in a variety of colors.  I’m still searching for the perfect pair.  I want [...]

G to the B

I have to write this post in spite of the ubiquity of GB on bloggery because I just love it so much.  I’m often reminded of the love when driving to school listening still to Yellow House several years later.  So the artists of the day are Edward Droste, Chris Bear, Chris Taylor and Daniel Rossen. [...]

This Is Just To Say

I have not
written the warm up
that the children
should do today in class
 
and which
you were counting on
using
for today.
 
Forgive me
dinner was delicious;
pumpkin pasta
and fresh salad.
After William Carlos Williams

A Busy Day

By 8:00AM I had done a series of aerobic exercises including “Super Hula Hoop” on the Wii.
By 9:30AM I had changed my name, applied for a new license, registered to vote, promised my organs, a posed for a photograph: Oakland DMV.
By 9:45AM I made it to Bakesale Betty:

Bakesale Betty is SUPER Oaklandish (Oaklandish often=cheesy earnest [...]

A Rockridge Morning/Back To School Night

As I. gets fit on Wii, I am madly assembling a teacherly ensemble.  

I’m sparing you the shot of him in his underwear on the Wii platform, nunchucks in hand. 
Tonight is BTSN: Back to School Night.  Otherwise known as the first day of school for teachers (what should I wear?  will they like me?  will [...]

Tonight

I read 3 lengthy articles, all with scintillating titles:
“Cultural Literacy”
“Critical Literacy”
“Literacy in Three Metaphors”
When grad school gets you down, blahghe!
But really, titles aside, these are important pieces of writing that debate questions that determine our American experience.  What should children know?  What is literacy?  Who gets to decide what is important to know?  
Deborah Meier [...]