Sharon DeVellis: Inside Scoop

Nov
04
2010

I Hate School Field Trips

Eight Reasons Why I Dread Going

I’m just gonna put it out there. 

I HATE school field trips. 

I was going to write I HATE “expletive” field trips but realized I’m so tired from supervising said “expletive” field trip, I couldn’t think of where to put the comma in order to keep you from reading that sentence as me doing some sort of pervy shit to field trips instead just really really not liking them.

It’s the age old Verb vs. Adjective dilemma. 

In no particular order, this is what I hate about field trips:

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Nov
03
2010

Never Apologize For Who You Are

Diarrhea...And I'm Not Talkin' Verbal

I want you to listen very very closely as you read this blog. If you listen hard enough, I do believe you’ll hear Erica closing the door on letting me have free reign on my blog topics from this point forward.

Today I’m writing about poop.

And not my kids’ poop, mine.

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Yesterday I was on a high.  And not my usual marker smelling high.  I was on a high because we started a Kindness Revolution.  And within hours, our #BeKind hashtag was the No. 1 trending topic on twitter.  It was amazing watching the #BeKind twitter stream and reading the random acts of kindness being tweeted out. 

I just wanted to take a quick sec to clear up one thing.  During the height of #BeKind more than a few people tweeted giving me credit for the Kindness Revolution and oh, what a great idea!  Let me be abundantly clear...

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Nov
01
2010

A Kindness Revolution

One Random Act Of Kindness A Day

Kind: Of a friendly, generous, or warm-hearted nature, showing sympathy or understanding; charitable, humane; considerate, forbearing; tolerant, generous

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