Beneath the Wraps

          Canyonville School caters to grades K-8 and so it doesn’t seem far-fetched  that the middle school age kids will use the playground just outside of the cafeteria.   Coffenberry also has a playground to use.   We never had that option when I went to junior high.   I honestly don’t remember where I went after lunch – although I am quite certain that I did not intentionally hang around the cafeteria.           It seemed like there were some kids who went out to the field to play ball – or tag or something.   I was not a part of any athletic crowd – or any group for that matter.   I was mostly antisocial. I really didn’t like the loudness of school or being there in any way, shape or form.           I used to dress up for spirit week – not because I had spirit but just to get away with dressing up in someth...

                It was quite dark yesterday morning even between 7:00 and 7:30.   I was able to drive myself to work yesterday as my shift didn’t start until 8:30 and the elements had lightened by then.   I thought that Roland might have to drive me today as my shift started an hour earlier, and probably would have had him take me in if I hadn’t gone with him at 6:00 this morning when he dropped Jenna off at the church.   The darkest part of the commute was getting out of my neighborhood onto the main drag.               I had given myself 20 minutes for a 6 minute drive and so I had plenty of time.   Yesterday I was in the detention room (or in-school- suspension  as it is called at that particular school) but today I had crosswalk duty which I have only done at that school one time before.     ...

After two weeks of not working, I returned to work yesterday – though it was for only half a day.   I prayed that I would be able to get through the day.   My cough had died down.   Still, I had to change my pants before I had even left the house.          I left the house early to stop by a thrift store as there is a game I would like to get for Jenna – a specific game that I still have not seen and may have to order online.   While there, I looked at dresses and found a light jumper that I thought I could wear.          I had planned on putting keys in my pocket and hooking the walkie-talkie through one of the belt loops but while at the thrift store, I realized that the pants I had changed into did not have pockets.   Frustrating.   I returned home for a lanyard in which I could hang the keys and the walkie-talkie.   Only by the time I returned home, I decided it was war...