Carol's Corner

Slice #31! I did it! Jumped off the high dive! Touched the bottom at the twelve foot mark! Swam all the way across the deep end! ...

For those of you who think my family is somewhere close to sainthood, thought I would give you a typical slice from our life. This is one ...

Maybe I shouldn't admit this, but besides being a book-loving, poem-eating, word- hungry teacher, I'm also a huge sports lover. I ...

The first weekend, or maybe the second, I take Isaiah to Colorado Springs to meet my family. It was Mother's Day, and my family had re...

The boys have lived with me about a month when their social worker  (who shall remain nameless) comes to visit. We discuss the boy...

I bring Isaiah home for the first time on a Friday night. It is pouring rain, super unusual for our very dry state. Kadeem has not gone t...

I am at a school that is closing at the end of this school year. Actually, the primary wing closed last year, and reopened this fall as a ...