Heo Cwaeth

And not a moment too soon! The kids and I were all getting tired and cranky. I must say that I have been very proud of my kids for the past few weeks. We have been doing our drama unit, which i...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2011/04/spring-break-also-bragging-about-my.html

It occurs to me that perhaps my fascination with the middle ages began with the understanding that seriously commitmentphobic behavior was codified and exalted as representative of perfect, ch...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2011/01/in-which-blogger-avoids-actual-pressing.html

My best resolutions always come quietly, usually emerging from some area of my life I hadn't even known I was thinking about changing. This happens approximately two weeks into the new year, when...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2011/01/dark-horse-resolutions.html

God, I'm always late! The Gregorian year started 37 hours ago and I still don't know what direction I want it to take. This is not unprecedented. Slightly over four years ago, on January 14th, I ...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2011/01/as-yet-unresolved.html

I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday season, and wish you all a joyous new year. For my part, I got to see the sunrise over the NYC skyline as I drove home this morning, and I take that...

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Sometimes a very bad week is followed by an even worse week, and so it has been with me. I want to preface my comments by saying that I generally believe I have a good relationship with my stude...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/12/thinking-through-conundrum.html

I had a rough week this week. The administration has decided that we will teach according to an entirely new model, a different philosophy from the last two "all-in" philosophies we have had, an...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/12/moment-i-started-hating-teaching.html

... according to the very odd pair of twenty-somethings I shared the laundry facilities with this morning, is fat. The very worst thing a woman can do is to inhabit a body that does not comply wi...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/11/very-worst-thing-woman-can-be.html

Hilarious, in that I have literally had conversations exactly like this already this year. (Regime change from good leadership to crazy leadership.)

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/10/collaborative-planning.html

After a gift-shopping spree on Amazon last year threw some wrenches into their profile of me, I have taken to ignoring their now very weird "suggestions for you" list when I log on to search for...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/10/amazon-gets-it-very-right.html

I have done all the usual interventions. I've written emails and signed petitions and called the white house gripe line and my senator's gripe line and carefully controlled my breathing and my to...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/08/damn-it-all.html

I can tell by the sudden uptick in emails (including a request that I alter a grade so that a child will meet the eligibility requirements for a sport--rage!) that it is time to start preparing i...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-will-be-new-drilling-down.html

Yesterday's doldrums have been supplanted today by excitement upon learning that a dear, dear old friend (and her family) will be visiting my neck o'the woods soon. Yay! This particular friend ...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/07/mood-swing.html

I'm feeling retro enough and grumpy enough to do this, so here goes: It is too !#$% hot and humid to walk around my usually very walkable neighborhood with the extra weight of my walking cast. ...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/07/random-bullets-of-crap.html

This was not supposed to be my summer project. Every year, I choose something large and somewhat scary to learn over the summer break. I was determined this summer to learn how to be moderately a...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/07/summer-project-plan-b-attempting-to.html

The local library has a large bookshelf by the exit on which they place donated books that patrons can buy for a DOLLAR! I try to avoid that section of the library most of the time because I hoar...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/07/thanks-susan-faludi-i-needed-that.html

When I was a wee colleen, eager to thwart the unreasonable hierarchical constructs that I identified as the enemies of justice and goodness, but still naive enough to think I could purchase the a...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/07/heomodors-prediction.html

So, I think I have cleared all the E.D. medication ads from the blog. Yay. Despite my worst fears, the majority of my posts have not been so boring/childish/irresponsible that I'm left with thr...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/07/spring-summer-cleaning-underway.html

I dropped that check into the mailbox over at CHECs central post office, and I could feel my dread grow as I heard the envelope slide down to meet its compatriots. Then, for an hour following, I ...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/05/on-sending-in-payment-for-my-high.html

This is to notify the literally several readers I have managed to keep through rather sporadic and often foolish blogging (LOVE you guys!) that I will be dusting the old blog off in the next few ...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/04/spring-cleaning-warning.html

The text of the poem below was taken in both Middle English and Modern English versions entirely from the website of Wessex Parallel WebTexts , a source I happened upon while seeking a printable ...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/03/end-of-march-love-poetry.html

People who know me personally know that I hate my local cable company like dogs hate fleas, and for much the same reason. They extract more than I am willing to give, and are an at least intermit...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2010/02/odd-development-from-war-with-service.html

I’m still a little bitter with Spivak for making me read through 20, 30, 50 pages of extremely dense prose to get to a one-word answer. I don’t claim to be able to create an essay like Spivak...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2009/12/am-i-still-medievalist.html

Heomodor passed last Saturday, October 3rd, at 4:40 am. Just to be ornery, she died of a Pulmonary Embollism rather than the illness she has been fighting for the past few months. She is now b...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2009/10/requiescat-in-pace.html

The best news I have to share with friends these days is this: my fear that enrolling myself in educational programs was somehow causing my loved ones to develop life-threatening or life-ending i...

http://heocwaeth.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-being-black-hole-of-emotional-need.html