Caturday funnies
It’s never too early to start
It’s been a long cold lonely winter
Bored of education
When seven-year-old Alice got home from school, her mother asked her what she’d learned that day.
“We learned how to make babies,” said Alice.
Alice’s mother was shocked. She sent her daughter outside to play, then she called Alice’s teacher to complain that the things she was teaching were not appropriate for second graders.
“Did you ask her to explain how it’s done?” said the teacher.
“No,” said the mother.
“Ask her, then call me back,” said the teacher.
Alice’s mother went outside to where her daughter was playing and asked her, “So how do you make babies?”
Alice replied, “You drop the ‘y’ and add ‘ies’.”
Some assembly required
Monday chuckles
SHELFIE
This is my poetry shelf in my office:
On the top shelf is collectible decanter and four glasses purchased from the Franklin Mint during the American bicentennial, which celebrated America’s 200th birthday (1996).
On the second shelf is a Bulgarian stacking doll (Does anyone know the correct term for these dolls?) a friend gave me after her trip to Europe, a “Teacher” appreciation card with two hand-dipped candles attached from one of my favorite former students (She came through in 2009.) It is perched atop various collections of poetry by poets like Maya Angelou, a signed Margaret Atwood (a gift from a friend), a book on writing haiku, and other smaller poetry books. To the right are the larger books: Shel Silverstein, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, and a couple of others. Standing upright at the far right, poetry anthologies from college courses and some anthologies too…
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Saving face
Caturday chuckles
SUNDAY SUMMARY
LOOKING BACK
This is an approximation, but since January, 2021, I have read:
13 kids books
7 non-fiction books
1 eBook
3 books of poetry
1 audiobook
and 12 novels
THIS PAST WEEK
I FINISHED
Currently I am reading:
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Kissing Annabel by Steven Herrick
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
ASwim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
YES, I can keep the books separate in my head. They are all so different.
I ALSO WATCHED A…
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