should i stop them?

October 1: Abel found his ideal reading spot at recess. It was in the middle of the soccer court while a game was happening. He looked so happy and relaxed sitting there amid the screaming chaos with his little pile of books.

October 2: I gave my kids a riddle to solve during journal time today. It went: What can you see once in a minutes, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years? Eight of them guessed that it was a cookie.

October 3: When I locked the classroom door at pickup time, I used to tell my kids “let’s roll”. I can no longer do this because they have decided to take me literally and actually get on the floor to roll down the hallway.

October 4: The new Reading Partners lady looked concerned as soon as she walked through the door. “There are kids banging their heads against the side of the building. Should I stop them?”

October 5: When she gripped the chair in front of her, she could feel it rumble with the vibrations of the Garbage concert. The bass line thudded heavy through her body, manipulating the beat of her heart. The smell alternated between clouds of maple syrup vape and farts.

October 6: The man running the karaoke machine behind the counter at Dino’s fumbles with dozens of knobs on his table to make the drunken crooners sound as good as possible. He sang backup to my song, harmonizing with me perfectly even though we had never met before. The guy who came up after spit out lyrics to a rap song faster than my eyes could read them on the teleprompter.

October 7: In The Luxor, the elevator runs sideways due to the building’s pyramid shape and makes riders feel tipsy before they even have a chance to drink. There is a fake city stacked in the middle of the casino floor, which looks impressive when looking up, but they failed to decorate the tops of the stained roofs you look down on when you go to the hotel rooms.



much love,
hedgie