Barbara Thompson

Thursday, October 27, 2022 I learned a new word today! Historicity means historical authenticity, as in “to discuss the historicity of miracles…”. I was reading about Ralph Waldo Emerson (simply referred to as Waldo in our discussions, because why not?) with an 11th grade student and I read historicity out loud and stopped. I looked […]

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 We went to see the musical SIX tonight. It is about the six wives of Henry the XIII (divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived). We have seen it before – it was here before it went to Broadway – and loved it. This cast wasn’t quite as good as the one

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 We went to see the musical Cats tonight. It has been a long time since we have seen a live performance of it. We saw the movie – Alexander highly recommended that we see it. He organized a group to go to see it because he heard it was awful. He

Monday, October 24, 2022 Today I was being a regular sub, off to Cottage Grove middle school to sub for the orchestra teacher. Orchestra kids are always the absolute best, so that is why I picked up the job. Band kids are great, but orchestra kids rise above even them. First thing I did was

Sunday, October 23, 2022 We went to Madison for the weekend so we could attend the celebration of life for my Uncle Don, who passed away in July at the age of 93. He was my dad’s next younger sibling. As we drove down Friday night, Keith asked me where Don fell in the line

Saturday, October 22, 2022 We are in Madison today. Part of our day was spent with Benjin and Sean. They are thinking about putting vinyl plank flooring in on their main level – or at least part of their main level – and Keith has quite a bit of experience in installing it, so he

Friday, October 21, 2022 We did not get a puppy. But my friend did. Her name is Lola (the puppy, not the friend). She is a miniature Doodle (not a showgirl). That is a poodle and a something else dog. I had to go see her, because she is a baby! She is smaller and

Thursday, October 20, 2022 Keith would like to retire someday. Lately, he has been wanting to retire tomorrow, but I won’t let him, because I don’t know how to retire and neither does he. (And we just creak around like really old people, but we aren’t realllllly old yet.) I used to be in charge

Wednesday, October, 19, 2022 We went to the Illusion Theater’s new location in Minneapolis (not downtown like it used to be). It seemed so very easy to park in the school parking lot across the street (their suggestion) and walk across a pleasant street instead of parking in an expensive lot and walking down Hennepin.

Tuesday, October 18, 2022 What a delightful, delightful surprise. The technology behaved. The kids mostly behaved. I just typed that, then stopped. I thought about it. Yes, the overall behavior was so much better than it has been, but still pretty crazy. Today I just thought it was funny crazy. There are two extra desk