Hey, there! Anybody ever come to this site anymore…?
I turned in the last of my grades this morning and am just finishing up preparations for my new on-line summer class that starts on Tuesday. Ah, but then… then I’ll have time at last to write! And to catch up with all of my [...]
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Yeh, well, so I think Spring is coming…. March is supposed to be Spring, right? Only not so much today. This weekend was in the low 60s and today five inches of snow. Hmmm. Well, at least my son enjoyed it…
He created a bow out of some branch that came down int he last storm [...]
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Hmmm. Well, that’s what showed up on my wordpress dashboard yesterday as the search terms that led someone to my site: “writing assignments for bad kids.” Nothing like promoting the idea that English is torture. Give ‘em some grammar exercises, too, why don’t ya?!
I have a student this semester who is so far [...]
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I want to say a big thanks to Montessori Mama, who has given me the Kreativ Blogger award!!
You know, it feels kinda good. I needed the boost — thanks again, MM. Coming from one of the most creative of all bloggers I know, this award means a lot!
Now, on to the rules:
- List six things [...]
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I am NOT the grammar police, okay? But, honestly, sometimes I can’t help but draw attention to signage errors. I mean, I’d want to know! I live by that Do Unto Others credo, so shoot me.
I was at the mall this weekend buying a few last Christmas gifts, when I was surprised to see a [...]
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Because students like B. come to my office and are confused when they sit down and shakin their heads and looking at the floor. And when they leave, they high-five me. Seriously. High-five.
Because students like M. write an essay about how their mom was just diagnosed with lung cancer and they are [...]
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Dear Grandma,
I miss you. Lately these flashes of memories keep intruding on my day.
Your laugh. You looked so regal, so classy. But your laugh was down home, real folk, spilling out of you whenever the smallest opportunity for mirth arose. How much we laughed, working on your book, our book. Every Sunday night when I [...]
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Periodically, I take a closer look on my blog dashboard to see who is reading my blog, at least to see what search terms people used to find me, that is. In the last couple of days, these are a few of the terms that showed up:
grieving words of wisdom
length of the pan am highway
swedish [...]
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Yeh, so after I returned from Scandinavia, it was back to work for that kid o’ mine! I’m a regular crack the whip kinda mom. SO MEAN! Yes, I re-instituted the three-hour work cycle that I was having him complete earlier in the summer.
Anyway, this week it occurred to me that since [...]
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We arrived in Newcastle, in the northeast of England, on Monday morning and disembarked from our ship, The Queen of Scandinavia. What we didn’t know was that we were not actually in Newcastle and had to catch one of the DFDS Seaways buses to the city. Having waited until the majority of people left the [...]
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