how i won the nightly homework battle

When my oldest daughter started bringing homework home (i think it was the third grade) our school nights became a battleground. My daughter would bring out every arsenal within her power…and it was exhausting. I dreaded homework. My daughter didn’t understand homework was non-non-damn-no-negationable. She wanted me to do it. I didn’t want to. She…

black & white rose

contrasts abound…the soft looking petals vs the sharp thorns, bring the fluffy looking bumble bees with their sharp thorn-ed backside. This rose has hard light on one side with soft light fading into black on its other. A rose is a lot like a human. The woman reveals her soft side more often, because showing…