the Nixionary

The only thing constant about living here is that everything breaks.
We are working on simple solutions for small grievances:
Kate says, “Maybe we could consider our constantly running toilet a Zen fountain.”
My shower leaks, so now I don’t use a rug. (Who really needs rugs, anyways? Our feet got spoiled somewhere along the line. [...]

Water bottle missiles! Drool! Crinkly granola bar wrappers making their hungry rustlings! These are the benefits that come along with standardized testing week at public high schools mid-March. My personal benefit: besides being bored out of my mind, I actually have some free time on my pencil-distributing, trash-collecting hands this week.
Today, [...]

Exhaustion. Sleep Deprivation. Revelations. Last Monday, I accidentally wore my nose ring to school. The parents descended like vultures. Not to talk about their students who are failing, but to talk about my outward defamation of the good Lord’s temple. We had an hour and a [...]