Thursday, December 16, 2021

I want to talk to my mom

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 I can handle life. I just sometimes want to run things past the one that knows my entire history. Nobody understands you like your mom. I d...
Monday, July 12, 2021

“Why yes, I‘ll work for free, who wouldn’t?”

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 As I enter year thirty-two of teaching, I am excited to see my students. I am excited to see my colleagues. I have new ideas for what to te...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Counting the minutes

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 It's been happening as long as I've been teaching; but especially more since we went back to school during a pandemic.  Teachers wi...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

Ignored on a national scale - My thoughts on the Bonnet Carre' Spillway

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We drove along Biloxi beach yesterday.  Yesterday, July 20th.  Height of summer.  We drove along the beach.  It was empty.  Absolutely nobod...
Saturday, December 29, 2018

Presents Are Fun, But What Do You Give?

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This music teacher had a lovely Christmas season.  The choir sang beautifully before the local Christmas parade, then sang the National Anth...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Teacher Talk

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Tomorrow - my twenty-ninth first day of school as a teacher.  Considering I took five years off, I started teaching thirty-three years ago. ...
Monday, July 9, 2018

Hey Y'all, who are you, where are you from?

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I've been writing and tracking this blog for five years now.  I had hoped to change the world, but I know in reality that world change h...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

Hold a grudge? Not me........

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I've been struggling with something for a while now.  Let's see if any of you have a similar problem.  Years ago, about 24 years ago...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Dogs and Cats Living Together.........

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Mass hysteria. Marches. Media wars. Social media wars. Young people, older people. Politicians, neophytes. Name-callers, silent sufferers. ...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Fifth Grade Thunderdome

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Once a year, the weather starts to warm up, Easter decorations hit the stores, weekend festivals abound and the fifth graders that I teach a...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

Ring Around the Issue

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Everyone wants something done.  There is not a soul that says "Oh, just leave EVERYTHING the way it is, it's working great!"  ...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

It's just NOT

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I heard long ago that security of life is different in third world countries than it is here.  That they understand the fact that not all th...