So, now here's what's happening: we're waiting for my nephew to be born.  My first and only nephew, the brother-to-be of my one and only niece.   I have been invited to help at his birth, so I've been on-call, phone in-hand and on bedside.  His poor mother has been having loads of contractions, including a whole 24 hours of them on Monday-Tuesday.

So, I've neglected the blog once again.  I tend to do this from time to time each year.  But I'm not worried.  Everything will be fine, and I'll start writing again.  I have lots of topics to explore:

• The boys - my boys, Mac and Shef - are doing tae kwon do
• The kids - my school kids, the Sevies - are writing spoken word poems for a slam with some young and hip poets in-residence.  Those two poets seem like babies, except they are babies that are four and five years older than I was when I started teaching.
• My Stupid Half Marathon is tomorrow morning.  It's supposed to be 5 degrees with a windchill of -2 when we start.  How dumb is that?  Let's be honest, I'm doing it.  That is, unless someone happens to be in labor.  
• And other stuff.