Blog Post From The Edge.
"The character of a nation is related to how it treats its most vulnerable citizens." ~M. Gandhi For months--almost eleven months--I...
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monica
- Aug 25, 2020
- 5 min
One Hour With A School Superintendent: Staff Forum, YouTube LIVE: August 2020
Employees of an Upstate NY school district were invited to a live, one-hour YouTube forum with their Superintendent. Teachers and staff*...
monica
- May 29, 2020
- 2 min
Lockdown Lexicon
Do not contradict me. Please. Don't.
monica
- May 19, 2020
- 2 min
Quarantine Wants
I started writing a draft of this while taking the class Writing and Motherhood, taught by Sally Bittner Bonn, courtesy of Writers &...
monica
- Apr 29, 2020
- 2 min
Helping Moms in Need
It's no secret that over the past 7,000 weeks of quarantine I've been struggling. All you need to see is my face in a tiny box in your...
monica
- Apr 15, 2020
- 4 min
The Din Within
There is a constant hum that is the score to everyday life now. It grows louder when I catch sound bytes of the day's or week's local,...
monica
- Apr 2, 2020
- 3 min
Good Happenings at the Grocery Store
Three things happened yesterday that made my grocery shopping experience a fabulous escape from being inside with my kids for four days...
monica
- Mar 30, 2020
- 2 min
Quarantweening
Part One My first online class: it was weird. It was done by demand: two kids in one class who wanted to just see their classmates and...
monica
- Mar 27, 2020
- 3 min
Golden Hours & Silver Linings
Hey! Are you okay? Should we be worried about you? my neighbor called across the Moehle-sized stretch of lawn that separates our houses....
monica
- Mar 24, 2020
- 3 min
Puppies & rainbows. Or not.
What the everloving hell, SkinnyPop Popcorn Cakes. Your box makes it look like there's oodles of salty rice cakes in there when actually...
monica
- Mar 22, 2020
- 4 min
The Zombie Apocalypse & Signs of Life
Most of yesterday and some of today was about the good things that can happen when we cook, bake, or share food with others in trying...
monica
- Mar 19, 2020
- 3 min
The first days
Dear Lord. Thank you for the internet. And liquor. These are the words I find myself repeating tonight: praise for two of humanity's...