@meribah@yarbro Wow. We lived in Murfreesboro for 7 years & my husband student-taught in Rutherford County in 2008-2009 - it drove him out of education. He told me many times that the schools themselves felt like prisons. I can’t wait to listen to this podcast.
@hormiga My mom wrote shorthand fluently and used it to take notes in many book margins, notebooks, etc. I’d love to learn how to read it, but you’re right, it was complicated then, and today just seems insane.
@jackmjenkins Peace On Earth - The National Parks
Seconding Bells on Christmas Day - The Civil Wars
This Year - Caroline Pennell, Aaron Espe
Not indie but, Sara Bareilles - Winter Song
P.S. thanks for this thread! Expanding my playlist too!
We have officially entered our nonsensical knock-knock joke era of parenting. Family time now consists of constant jokes that we have to laugh at, or they are repeated over and over until we “get it.”
That’s it, I’ll just start buying men’s marketed bath products because who said women don’t wanna smell like cedar, moss, and sage?! I like that 1000x better than smelling like coconut and vanilla.
@HeyitsThorny Don’t worry, later it switches to Pokémon. And then it gets fun because then you can make up alternate names for all of them and watch your kid slowly explode.