Here There and Yonder
I finished watching the HBO series, His Dark Materials, a week or so ago, and am ready for its next HBO/BBC season coming in November 2020. This is a series that can… Read more Here There and Yonder →
After All These Years
Kim was a student of mine at the University of Louisville in 1996. As a requirement of the program she was in, she had to keep journal entries throughout the… Read more After All These Years →
You took my Cookie. Did Not.
I have been trying to write this blog for a week. Every time I watch the news, I get pissed. I am sick of all the childish behavior going on in D.C. Dems: Did too. Repubs: Did not. Dems: Did too. Repubs: Prove it. Dems: Everybody knows it’s true. And … on and on and on, they go tearing the country apart. __________ Amid the foolishness, I decided I would write down a few things that I think I know and don’t know. There was squishy, yucky stuff going on during the 2016 election I don’t… Read more You took my Cookie. Did Not. →
The Stolen Youth of Greta Thunberg
I spent than 30 years working with teenagers. I love high school kids and all their growing pains that minute by minute governs their lives. I love highflyers, but no more than the kids who battle to reach graduation. I don’t like what I see happening to eco-wunderkind Greta Thunberg, and I wonder, is she being manipulated? Children don’t see through the manipulation. Ask pedophiles. I don’t disagree with Greta’s message. I disagree with the eco-forces using her blonde innocence to promote their message. In all her time on the world… Read more The Stolen Youth of Greta Thunberg →
Everyday Angels
Remember the song, “Angels Among Us” by Alabama? I have thought a lot about it over the last few days. Most of you know that we were asked by our… Read more Everyday Angels →
I am being feasted upon by the little things
I wrote that sentence a few years ago in the anticipation that I would eventually develop it into an essay for my master’s students studying to be school principals as… Read more I am being feasted upon by the little things →
Perseverance
It was Thanksgiving. We did not have much, but I didn’t know it. I was 11 about to turn 12. My whole world was my family. I was loved and,… Read more Perseverance →
Open Season on Hand Turkeys
If you dig around in your attic in all the school projects your children have brought home, you will find this cute little creature, the hand-turkey. Chances are that he stayed on… Read more Open Season on Hand Turkeys →
