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December 20, 2015

Have A Very Goopy Christmas, Take Two

I posted yesterday about my new blog, Math Makes Me Poop, but apparently I was still suffering from Almost-Christmas-Break Teacher Brain and the link I tried to post didn’t actually work. So let’s try this again: here’s a post from the new blog. I hope you like it. Have a Very Goopy Christmas | Math…

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December 19, 2015

Kids are Weird, Man.

Edit: Now with a real, live, working link to the new blog! Sorry about that. Some of you might know that when I’m not writing, I’m teaching. This year, I’m working with a brilliant, hilarious, adorable kid I call Little G, and I’ve created a new blog to chronicle some of our adventures. We do…

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December 10, 2015

On Beliefs, and Why They’re Irrelevant

Beliefs are opinions. They’re feelings. They don’t make a darn bit of difference because they live inside your head and nobody else is in there but you.

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December 9, 2015

Hypo

We are Pavlov’s dogs gas on gas off red light green light go television gunshots OUTRAGE new shoes BUY captive audience techno illogical warfare brown is the new black, haven’t you heard? your God is ugly and your mama dresses you funny go back where you belong if you can find it crash-test dummies, toys…

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December 2, 2015

Bliss

Assume the position It’s time for your daily 15 minutes of outrage time for furrowed brows and fingertips to lips and scripted measures of concern your eyes so blacked by ignorance you can’t see the gun in your hand. Let us pray for the victims this sorrowful collection of lone gunmen. Why does this keep…

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December 2, 2015

Shaded.

In that final hour, before the stars set themselves against the charcoal sky, there is a shroud up on the mountain smoke and fog, the gravel path the only way in or out shaded pink by the last, sad efforts of the sun to stand her ground Before coyote songs and the stuttering of owls…

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December 1, 2015

Trump Mocks Disabled Reporter, Bones Attractive Transsexual

…that’s when you grab crazy Uncle Donald by the arm, smack him in the back of the head, and drag him out of the room…

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November 30, 2015

Happy Holidays (Operative Word: Happy.)

When someone chooses to use their words to share a message of joy with you and you take offense to the words rather than appreciating the message, when you slap away a hand held out in friendship because of a minor linguistic difference, you are the offensive thing.

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November 20, 2015

The Smallest Ones

In my nightmares, there are children playing in a field of tall grass, so tall that the only way I know the children are there is by the sound of their voices and the way the grass moves as they run. Then there are men, impossibly tall men, dressed all in camouflage, with guns strapped…

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November 19, 2015

Refuge.

They are laughing in the sand, their high-pitched voices crossing over and under each other and up into the sky into the clouds dirty hands reaching for each other, circling around singing songs whose words we cannot recognize but the tune is universal; nursery rhymes are all the same. They are smaller than the dogs…

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Have A Very Goopy Christmas, Take Two

Kids are Weird, Man.

Hypo

Shaded.

Trump Mocks Disabled Reporter, Bones Attractive Transsexual

Happy Holidays (Operative Word: Happy.)