As mentioned earlier this week, I spent an hour and a half on Friday talking to the Diversity Club at the school I work at. (Both lunches, so it was different sets of kids, except for a couple who have a free period over lunch.) We had 23 students by the diversity director’s count (plus [...]

There is no year of my life that has not, at some fundamental level, been wrapped up in the academic calendar.
My father was a university professor: our family vacations ran on his schedule.
Then there were my years of pre-school, elementary school, junior high, high school, and boarding school (a new and different schedule, that, but [...]

[The following is something I've written up for internal coven documents, because I wanted to spell out what I thought my role was. I've run most of it by my covenmate, and included some other thoughts at her suggestion.]
Or, rather, I should say roles: I think there are a number of things going on here. [...]

One of the good things about working for a school is the vacations.
(There are also downsides: my breaks are unpaid time, and I don’t get any say in when I get them – it makes it very hard to do things requiring time off during the school year.)
Last summer, I started a habit of doing [...]

I have very mixed feelings about Father’s Day, for the very simple reason that it is logistically tricky to celebrate a father who has been dead for more than half your life. Especially if one is bound into the Hallmark holiday sort of model.
Not impossible, of course, and as I am a Pagan whose path [...]