Shannon Costello

I will teach in 3 different classrooms this year, my desk is in a fourth room, and my teaching resources for my Spanish classes are stored in yet a fifth room. I know how to say “float” and “cart” in Spanish.
Advice I have recieved on Proper Floating Technique:
1) Be organized.
2) [...]

The house is in order, the lawn is mowed, and I think it fair to state that I am ready for the first day of school on Monday. I had a wonderful time working this week. There was lots to do and I tore into it so eagerly that it was just as [...]

Life is so full of interesting people to talk to, places I want to go, and things I want to learn that it is easy to over-book. No good!
Life is so full of these interesting things that it is easy to get full without being exactly over-booked. Also no good.
I [...]

Success in cooking is achievable provided that the cook doesn’t panic. Timely adjustments may save a particular dish.
I recently attempted a recipe for spinach dumplings. The idea was to make the batter the evening before and to form and boil the dumplings just before serving. I was certain my [...]

You can laugh of course, and you can even cry during a good story. It doesn’t really matter because once you have turned the last page and closed the book, you will be back in your world. An hour later, the emotions you experienced while reading will be things of the distant [...]

I’m guessing there were at least two dozen Coopers buried in front of Christ Church in Cooperstown.
What really bowled us over were the graves of the 5 children who never lived past two years. One lived for only 17 days. They were all children of Ann Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper’s [...]

Changing a light bulb is not hard. We all know that.
Today I managed to drop the old bulb as soon as it was out of its socket. It smashed into smithereens.
Just watch out for little slivers of glass, ok?