While My Students Studied for Midterms

Hello, everyone. I had a SUNsational vacation. Pardon the pun, but this is the lovely message the disembodied voice on the shuttle bus’s speaker system imparted to me, and I wanted to share it with you so we can all gag and snort together.
 Florida was amazing, great, awesome, “You don’t know!”, “SOOO much fun” and [...]

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No Story Makes for a Crash and Burn Day

It’s so stupid.
I got in my first car accident today, my fault, and I don’t even have a good story to tell.
 
No screeching tires
No moments of panicking doom
No blood, guts, or even whiplash.
 
All there was, was a patch of ice, non-responsive brakes and traction, and a broken tail light (and a dented [...]

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Reigning the Road

I never understood Road Rage.
Then I got behind the wheel.
Yesterday, my car was streaking along the streets of Boro Park. I had no gas in it, and no money on me to fill up. So I was trying to get home ASAP and let the next family member to drive the car collapse in it [...]

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