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Sheryl Bone is a full time, online professor in the Department of Student Success at Kaplan University. An active member of professional organizations, she makes presentations on a variety of topics related to education. Sheryl serves as a regional leader for the College Reading and Learning Association. She is a full time mother to three children, ages 14, 12 and 10 and one little dog, as well as a full time wife to a busy, supportive husband. Always driving someone somewhere, she is sometimes frazzled, usually tired, but generally a very happy woman. Follow Sheryl Bone on twitter at http://twitter.com/MomandProfessor
My daughter, like most ten year old girls, tends to be melodramatic. So when she came off the school bus on Thursday and told me she “broke her wrist in library” I dismissed her. In library, really? The girl plays travel soccer, bask ... Read more...
I don’t normally go to Costco. It is the one store my husband will go to, so I’m happy to let him lug cases of water and gallons of laundry detergent. He was out of the country last weekend and sick in bed with the flu this weekend, ... Read more...
My inclination is to use vacation time, time away from home, to catch up on work. The lack of housework and daily demands frees up extra time to catch up on grading, do some extra tweeting, work on a writing project….all the things that can be diff ... Read more...
Today was another busy day in our household. My oldest made the school bus, but the little two, dawdling making water bottles and leashing up the dog, did not. It amazes me how one can get it together and make the bus but the other two can’t.&n ... Read more...
I found a strange man in my kitchen yesterday. He was making himself three pieces of wheat toast, to go along with the heaping bowl of penne and marinara sauce and the huge glass of orange juice he’d prepared for himself. He heard me enter ... Read more...
Perhaps the most dreaded words a mother can hear in the middle of the night are “Mommy, I’m sick”. Last night at 1:45 am, I woke to the sound of my eight year old, calling me with just those words. Out of bed, down the hall and into ... Read more...
Kelly Williams-Bolar was released from jail last week after serving nine days on a felony conviction of tampering with records. Her crime? Wanting the best for her children. Williams-Bolar used her father’s address, in a desirable school district, ne ... Read more...
My husband and I have always presented a united front on the topic of getting a dog. A firm no has always been the answer. When pressed further I have too many messes to clean up already was the standard reply.
July 13, 2010 can be marked as the day I lost m ... Read more...
My friend Jeanette called yesterday. We talked about the macaroni lobster gratin I had served at a dinner the night before. She told me about the timpano she was planning to serve the following night. She needed a 14 X 4 baking dish, preferably curved, kinda so ... Read more...
Working from home enables me to have the best of both worlds. I can teach full time, pursue professional development on my own schedule, and research, write and present all from the comfort of home sweet home. I can also get my kids off to school, work recess d ... Read more...
