I have long been a fan of Rick Steves’ Europe Through the Back Door series. He is like EveryBrother, a tall amiable American, who loves the world and everyone in it. Steves advocates traveling the world on a budget, becoming “temporary locals” and seeing the out-of-the-way places. His philosophy makes a lot [...]
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Thank You too.
Posted in teaching, travel on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘A Campin’ We Will Go – continued
Posted in camping, teaching, travel on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re back from the North Georgia Mountains — and yes, it was cold, especially the first night, but not horribly so. However, MacKathy, earlier in the week, made flannel pillowcases for our camping pillows. I found an old flannel sheet that had too many holes to mend, but too much material to [...]
Voice From the Past
Posted in teaching on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I heard from a former student from Hill City High School in Kansas. John Foster managed to track me down 24 years after I last saw him. We moved from Kansas in late May of 1984. That was a looong time ago. John reminded me that he is now [...]
Good for the Soul
Posted in books, home, life, teaching on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It started with the book shelves in the study, moved on to the book shelves in the back hallway, into the back bedroom and returned to the study in the file cabinets. It was a purge. Thin ‘em out, toss ‘em out, clean ‘em out!
We whittled down the whole shelf of Holy Bibles [...]
Readin’, Writin’ — No ‘Rithmatic
Posted in books, life, poetry, teaching, writing on August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If I blogged as often as I think about blogging, I’d do little else. I started this blog because, most of my life, I’ve chided myself for not keeping a journal. I always felt somewhat deficient. I was an English major, for heavens sake. English majors are supposed to read and [...]
What’s in a Name?
Posted in life, names, pets, teaching on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A rose by any other name smells just as sweet, says Shakespeare. Names identify significant attributes we need to know. I suspect they may help shape character too.
Our tuxedo cat is named Booger. He has two black spots on his otherwise white nose. The name was an easy choice. However, I [...]
Editor Kathy
Posted in Family, food, life, teaching on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I first announced my plans to retire, some of my colleagues said to me, “What will you do? Or you going to substitute? Get another job?” I guess they didn’t understand the concept of retire. They just couldn’t yet imagine going day to day without a job. Truth [...]
To Sleep — Perchance to Dream
Posted in dreams, life, pets, teaching on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dreams are funny things. Almost all my life I’ve had a rich dream life. Some are funny, some are sad, some are weird and some aren’t even worth remembering.
A couple of days ago I woke up laughing and had to tell Bruce about my silly dream. (A real treat for him first [...]
Mumbling in Sign Language
Posted in life, teaching on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love studying sign language. I’ve have wanted for years to take a class in it. It’s difficult to find classes as there are only a limited number of people who can teach it. It has to be a hearing person who is fluent in sign language. I attend two sessions [...]
Grammatically Speaking . . . and Spelling
Posted in life, teaching on January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today as I drove down the street I noticed a car with this written on the back windshield: “Mom ur the best”. I don’t text message but I assume this comes from that format. My first thought was “Oh no, another reason for people to screw up words.” There are plenty [...]
