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My blogs
| Location | Chicago, IL |
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| Introduction | I'm a teacher. Apparently this means I must know EVERY answer to EVERY question in all of creation. Heaven help me if I make a spelling error. I'm also a wife & "new Mommie" (shudder). Don't get me wrong, I love my babies, but the phrase "new mommie" has got to go. It just conjures up images of scrunchies & sweat pants in my mind. Phooey. |
| Interests | The glue gun, sparkly things, children (but not in a creepy, illegal sort of way), celebrity gossip, heckling parallel parkers from my window ("Go back to the suburbs Grandma! You suck!" |
| Favorite music | I ran out of room in the book section-, Anything by David Eggers, Jitterbug Perfume, The Fixer (Malamud), The Kite Runner, The Stinky Cheese Man, Sideways Stories From the Wayside School (Sachar), A Series of Unfortunate Events ( Snicket), I Wish that I Had Duck Feet, The Giving Tree, Kat Kong, The Velveteen Rabbit |
| Favorite books | Anything by David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs and JD Salinger, Pillars of the Earth (Follett) , As I Lay Dying (Faulkner) , Mrs. Dalloway(Woolf), Midnight's Children (Rushdie), Invisible Man (Ellison), Native son (Wright), Great Expectations (Dickens), Short stories of Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Conner, Nelson Algren, Memoirs of a Geisha ( Golden), Revenge (Fry), The Sun Also Rises, Confederacy of Dunces is probably the ..1 of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Founhtainhead, The Namesake (Lahiri), |