(Reading on Facebook?  Please click the “View original post” link above to see this entry and its pictures as they ought to look!) There are milestones that are hard to ignore.  Some of them come but once in a lifetime, and others, especially in a place like BFA, are cyclical.  Junior-Senior Banquet belongs in the […]

Three weeks from today, I will be on a plane to the US, having said the kind of goodbyes that should never come early but, in this case, must. I’ve always considered imminent goodbyes as platforms for evaluations, and as these final days of the year tick to a close, I wonder about a lot […]

(If you’re reading on Facebook, please click on the “View Original Post” link above.  This one won’t make any sense unless you do!) [I must preface this post by informing my loyal readership that I did not write it!  Tonight was another evening of POT (Phi-Phi’s On Thursdays) mayhem and fun, and, as always, both […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Do yourself a favor and click on the “View Original Post” link above.  The pictures will look vastly better on Xanga!) If there’s one thing we know to be true at BFA, it’s that the spring term requires boat-loads of tenacity!  I’ve seldom seen a more apt illustration of the word than […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Please, please click the following link to be taken to my website.  It’ll only take a second, and the improved appearance will make it worth your while…) I’ve always been a fan of pop-ups.  One of my favorite cards ever was a birthday greeting I received from a friend in college that […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Please click this link to access the blog and see the pictures and layout as they OUGHT to look!  https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) They’re back…  They came crashing back into town today, after two weeks of spring break, with all the subtlety of stampeding…well…teenagers. Squirt and Erin didn’t waste any time calling me up for […]

I picked up the phone and said “Hello?” “So what do you do if you have three breasts—three chicken breasts—and they’re all stuck together?” Under normal circumstances, I might have quickly discerned the identity of the caller and the nature of the call, but I had been awakened mighty early this morning by yet another […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Stop now!  And click this link instead: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine.  Trust me.  It’s a whole lot nicer to look at!) There’s something about working with teenagers that keeps a person on her toes.  No matter how calm a get-together might seem at first… …angelic ladies… …literary boys… …studious scholars… …all it takes is one […]

(Reading on Facebook?  I PROMISE you the pictures look better and the layout is prettier on my blog! Just click on this link:  https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) There hasn’t been a major event this week, which is great for my sleep and not so great for my blogging!    As time is limited (one week left until spring […]

(Looking for the Candlelight Dinner recap?  Please scroll down to the next entry!  ) It was a gray and rainy–exactly what we all expected from our yearly weekend in Nuremburg.  Our convoy of buses pulled into the parking lot beneath the city’s castle a couple of hours late (one of the buses got lost) and […]