Category: the girl behind the screen

Divisible.

So, here’s a thing that happened. Isabella brought home a 2/10 on a math test. I was surprised. She was surprised. We were all surprised.   “I really thought I knew how to do long division, Mama,” she cried. “I really did.” And so did I. She was doing pretty…

When I’m Not Octopusing

Recently, a friend said, with what I think was not a hint of irony or sarcasm: You’re basically like an octopus.  It’s a compliment, right? It’s totally a compliment — it means my eight tentacles and I are constantly able to do a lot of stuff.   Right? {Want to…

Someday My Prints Will Come

One day, I would like to live in a world where I press print and my printer *just* prints. We are a mere days away from the year two thousand and sixteen. I can scan a document from my scanner app on my smartphone and email it to someone halfway…