by Sandy Lingo | Mar 13, 2020 |
It’s an expression: “I couldn’t give it away.” That summer day in 2007, I couldn’t give our encyclopedia set away. The kids had moved out, and now we were moving out, trading the big five-bedroom house for 1200 square feet in a city high rise. There would be no room...
by Sandy Lingo | Jul 9, 2019 |
Graduation speeches range from the ridiculous to the sublime.There’s this advice from actress Katie Holmes: “Don’t use a fake ID to buy wine and then try to pay with a check.”And this from Cindi Lauper: “Life is going to give you a bad turn…It’s just a test. And...
by Sandy Lingo | Apr 3, 2018 |
This post was inspired by real events. All names have been changed, except mine. No writer can resist the urge to make herself look clever on the page. Three retired teachers, women of a certain age (mine), are seated at a table in Applebees. “Hello. My name is Chet,...
by Sandy Lingo | Apr 21, 2017 |
Do not avert your eyes. It is important that you see this. It is important that you feel this. ― Kamand Kojouri Last night I was sitting by the front window in the Vine Street Skyline Chili, just me with my four-way, book, and phone. Rick was at some sporting...
by Sandy Lingo | Aug 27, 2015 |
Perhaps you are a teacher and find yourself returning to your classroom . I hope you enjoyed your three-month vacation. Oh, not three months? Do the math, you say? Not really a vacation, but unpaid leave? Oh, whatever. I digress. Many of you are starting back to...
by Sandy Lingo | May 20, 2015 |
On a field trip to the Cincinnati Enquirer with one of my first sixth-grade classes Almost 3,000 folks read this tribute to teachers since I first published it at the end of the 2015 school year. I am reposting it to honor those educators who made it through yet...
