Latest Blog Posts for Mindy's Musings

• Name Change
  on Jul 2, 2012
  Hi!  Remember me? Or this.Yeah, I'm a day late, but I changed my web address.  You can find the same old blog I write at a new address.  It'swendydarlingstories.blogspot.comSo go there.  Read it.  Show the love (assuming ther...
• Who Am I?
  on May 28, 2012 in School Writing Maltreated Children Heroes Growing Up Thinking
• Questions (Part 1)
  on May 27, 2012 in Writing
  ***The following is an excerpt from Raina's Story ****  So this is what dying feels like, Raina thought.  It’s kind of peaceful. It had all happened so quickly.  Instead of crashing into it, her mind made believe that the tr...
• The Advice That Never Stuck
  on May 21, 2012 in Kids are Cool Lessons Fatherly Advice Sentimental Growing Up My Family Mindy's Misadventures
  Found here The first joke I remember telling happened when I was very young. I couldn't have been older than five. I vaguely recall hearing it on my favorite show, but I don't even know what character said it. I honestly can't remember which of my f...
• Laundering Life
  on May 14, 2012 in Kids are Cool Lessons Observations Sentimental Maltreated Children Growing Up
  Image found here Part of my old job involved doing laundry for the classroom. I, like most typically raised and healthy people, looked at this as an annoying errand to be avoided. However, the kids I worked with were so starved for positive quality...
• Some Assembly Required
  on May 7, 2012 in Kids are Cool Lessons Fatherly Advice Heroes Growing Up My Family Mindy's Misadventures
  Throughout my childhood, whenever my family obtained something that required assembly the task was given to my father. He would don a self-impressed grin and sarcastically declare "this is a job for someone with a penis!" That may seem rather chauvi...
• Flawed Perception
  on Apr 30, 2012 in Observations Thinking Rants
  I struggle with people who have disproportionately inaccurate mental representations of themselves. I find myself up against a barrier when attempting to relate to individuals who think themselves to be geniuses despite all evidence to the contrary.
• My Humble Beginning
  on Apr 23, 2012 in Kids are Cool Lessons Maltreated Children Heroes Growing Up Thinking Mindy's Misadventures
  On my first day of working with troubled kids, I unknowingly walked into utter chaos. Children were screaming and crying. One frighteningly thin cape-clad boy jumped from one wobbly shelf to the next. Kids swore, threw solid blocks at one another, an...
• Flying Bus-Pod
  on Apr 16, 2012 in Writing
  ***The following is an excerpt from Raina's Story ****   “Oh dear!” the voice exclaimed startling Raina out of her slumber. Realizing that this voice was not one she had ever heard before, Raina froze. She clenched her eyes shu...
• Their Life
  on Apr 9, 2012 in Writing
  **The following is an excerpt from Raina's Story ** Just before school started that year, Mean Mark got a job as a janitor at the court house. He resented this job. Raina could tell by his exceptionally sour mood in the evenings. It had to be dem...

{pvComments::user_name}

{pvComments::date}

Delete 

{pvComments::comment}

Post a Comment