My Cardboard Balcony

Hey, kids! Do you like fire? 'Cause we sure got a lot of it in California this week! So much for this week being better than last week, huh? Yeah, this wasn't exactly a fun series of days. Even though my current town is in no imminent danger of the flames of doom, the bad air quality due to the smoke was reason enough to close down the school I work at for two days. As far as other areas in the North Bay are concerned, I'm sincerely hoping that containment will continue so that no one else - whether they are friends or former colleagues of mine or no - has to lose any more property or loved ones. It has been a tragic week when it comes to the fires in California, and so we must obviously work together as a statewide community to rebuild. In the meantime, I'll be encouraging my Yearbook staff to create a spread about the charity and generosity of our community. Homecoming's had to be rescheduled, so presenting the work we do as students and teachers to help oth

Draw Your Sword by Belinda Roddie The gladiators all lined up, and they would all die.

The clash of titans turned out to be little more than a quarrel of pygmies, all of the mightiest of gods turning out to be something but a few broken shadows bickering for a small scrap of territory within the Mediterranean. In the end, we watched sheepishly as the deities we idolized shrunk to the heights of children, arguing and prodding each other's chests as their true natures were unveiled like a body stripped of its bejeweled flesh.