I Finally Overcame My Phobia, And Now

Knowledge Is A Beautiful Thing, But There Are A Few Things I Wish I Didn't Know.

I Work At Home, In The Country, And Days Will Go By When, Except For My Husband And Son And The Occasional Ups Man, The Only Sentient Creatures That See Me Are My Chickens And Turkeys.

There's A Marvelous Sense Of Mastery That Comes With Writing A Sentence That Sounds Exactly As You Want It To. It's Like Trying To Write A Song, Making Tiny Tweaks, Reading It Out Loud, Shifting Things To Make It Sound A Certain Way... Sometimes It Feels Like Digging Out Of A Hole, But Sometimes It Feels Like Flying. When It's Working And The Rhythm's There, It Does Feel Like Magic To Me.

On The Very Same Day That I Ordered An Ipad 2, I Went Shopping To Buy Myself A Letter Opener. I Like To Cover All My Bases.

Most Fourth Graders Can't Say Why Abraham Lincoln Is An Important Historical Figure? Wow. This Is Far More Distressing Than If The News Had Been That Fourth Graders Were Bad At Reciting Multiplication Tables, Because You Can, In Fact, Google That.