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Drinks and Other Major Life Decisions

July 14, 2015

I got the wrong drink at McDonald’s today. It’s not that the person behind the counter gave me the wrong drink; I was given a cup and sent to the do-it-yourself drink bar to make that mistake all by myself. Sidenote: I am irritated that the service industry has stopped serving me my drinks. What’s … More Drinks and Other Major Life Decisions

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Platitudes, Schmatitudes.

July 10, 2015

Spoiler alert: I’m in a bad goddamed mood. As a teacher, I reveived a lot of presents at the end of the year. Handpainted mugs. Plants. Gift cards (unfortunately none from a liquor store, as I had hoped.) At the end of the last school year, I had been notified that due to budget cuts, … More Platitudes, Schmatitudes.

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RIFfed. Or…”Fair Only Comes To Town Once A Year.”

July 8, 2015

The end of the school year is always stressful for all teachers, but the end of the 2014-15 school year was, for me, purgatory. Which is ironic. Wait for it. It was a lovely afternoon in early May when the principal asked me and the other first grade teacher to the office after school.  I … More RIFfed. Or…”Fair Only Comes To Town Once A Year.”

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On her 45th birthday, Amy Cory began a blog to: a) launch her writing un-career; b) heal others with spiritual insights and meaningful prose; c) complain publicly A LOT; d) speak of herself in third person. D. The answer is D. Amy is a sum of her parts...a mother of two good men, a committed wife (or she will be when he files the commitment paperwork...), a teacher of authentic human beings (first graders), a runner, an amateur philosopher, and a hell of a cook. She has been writing since Kindergarten. Her earliest work included an excellent piece about dinosaurs.

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