The Reasons You Want to Be the String

The Reasons You Want to be the String

Here are the reasons why you want to be the string. Let’s talk about well meaning parents who take their parenting job way too far and drive themselves and their kids crazy. Yes, folks,  we call these parents “helicopter parents.” Here is a story for you: My perfect granddaughter (only joking….sort of) is nearly two […]

My Favorite Teacher Appreciation Gifts

If you have taught children for any amount of time and you are half good at it, you’ve received gifts for teacher appreciation week. Here are a few tips of my favorite teacher appreciation gifts I’ve received which would be good choices for you.

Ten Years Later: A Chat with Beatrice 

Bumbling.ing Bea Ten Years Later

I thought it might be fun and interesting to interview Beatrice ten years after the story ended.  So, I posed the idea to her and she happily agreed.

Notable Quote from Bumbling Bea

  “Yeah, a lot of life isn’t fair,” my dippy brother mimicked.” I didn’t get too upset when Bernie got run over by that car on the same day my camping game website crashed. Remember?” Edmund had built a camping game website and was so obsessed with it that he didn’t notice “Bernie’s Prison Break” […]

Newcomers Welcome! 

Hello friends and friends of friends and friends of relatives and so forth…… . You may have found this blog through a Facebook advertisement announcing sales of my book, Bumbling Bea Or a friend of mine or relative might have shared my blog with you. Either way, welcome! So you are probably thinking, “What the […]

The Ugly Santa and I: A Hilarious Story I Won’t Forget

A present and a blog post about an ugly Santa toy memory

When I was a little girl, my mother would hang this Santa on the doorknob in our home. I inherited him once I left home and started my life as an adult. Why I kept him all these years (and that’s a lot of years), I will never know.