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monica
Feb 6, 20219 min read
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...
monica
Aug 25, 20205 min read
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, 20202 min read
Lockdown Lexicon
Do not contradict me. Please. Don't.
monica
May 19, 20202 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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...
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