[lee martell]

“...and our teacher, a chain smoking angry spinster who put her make up on with a paint roller admonished them for their hysterics.”

Lol! That’s some good writing there.
I’m seeing someone like former actress Ellen Barkin
or Rosie McDonnell.

[dainbramaged]

someone like former actress Ellen Barkin
Miss Lyons was maybe five feet tall and 100 pounds - she looked kind of like a shriveled Ruth Ginsberg with skin the color of turkey jerky. I recall she pronounced Los Angeles with a hard "G". Funny how minutia like that stays in your skull after 55 years.