Still After Everything

Here’s a poem I wrote last year, a good reminder to take things slow and actually enjoy the holiday season.
Still After Everything
After two bags of apples simmering all night
in cinnamon-honey hot springs
and dutch babies baking, flexing like children
pulling themselves from the pool into the barstools
for Christmas breakfast–
I do the dishes
collecting like snowflakes on the deck
railing [...]

I love apples

Previously, I posted my thoughts regarding teacher crap with apples on it. I might have gone as far as to say that I hated apples. Well, a student gave me two bags of apples as a gift. And it turned out okay.
I sat in front of a movie yesterday skinning and chopping [...]

Christmas Cheer

I hate Christmas shopping. There’s really nothing good about it. I have to spend money I don’t have to buy things people don’t need from a store who’s employees don’t care.
No wonder my mother-in-law scrooged me. (You know the I’ve been elfed thing? Yeah…not me)
And as a teacher, why shouldn’t I be [...]