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May.16.2013
My response to Red Room's challenge to blog about the best parenting advice:
Parents are forever giving needed and unneeded advice to their children: we always remember Polonius’ advice to Laertes:
"Give your thoughts to yourself,
And don’t act without thinking. . .
Listen to what every man...
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Mar.03.2013
Starr Burgess worked as an elementary teacher and school counselor for a total of seven years. She has a Master's Degree in Professional Counseling from Texas State University. Starr is busy working on her second children's book: Counselor Dynamite Befuddles the Bullyville Crew...
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Feb.07.2013
I have been teaching English since I was seventeen years old in various forms and descriptions. I have taught abroad and at home, I’ve taught privately, one-on-one, and in large groups. I’ve taught mothers with babies at family centers. I’ve taught businessmen and doctors, factory workers and...
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Jan.23.2013
As they were leaving the park they saw the booth for donations and Millie bent down to retrieve her last penny. Again she had difficulty getting the penny out of the little window and Honey came to her rescue and popped it out as easily as she did the first one. She dropped it in the slot of the...
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Dec.22.2012
Photo: A pile of confiscated guns in Kenya, soon to be set ablaze. From Wikipedia's "gun control" page. The caption with the photo is interesting:
"Pyre of smuggled weapons in Uhuru Gardens, Nairobi, Kenya. Original caption states, 'A cache of more than 5,000 smuggled...
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Dec.21.2012
(Some of my 4th graders at the Christmas play - I so appreciate them now!)
Like a shooting star
Flyin' across the room
So fast so far
You were gone too soon
You're part of me
And I'll never be
The same here without you
You were gone too soon
Shine on! Shine on!
You were gone too soon...
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Dec.17.2012
We sat and watched as he read their names.
The kitchen was a sugary mess, the house thick with the aroma of the fudge and bon bons my wife and daughters had been baking, when the president came on TV.
And he read their names. All twenty of them.
There was Dylan and Emilie, there was Olivia and...
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Dec.02.2012
The job of a mystic is to wait. The pay stinks, the hours are eternal, the Boss is demanding and the rewards are out of this world.
While waiting, we play. I mean, if you've got to wait, you might as well enjoy yourself. Right?
There are little acts of sedition. When I was a...
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Aug.13.2012
Doug Lucas, author of The Flats Teacher's Test, is my guest today with a post about why he wrote a book that one reviewer called "an explosive story...crossing the boundaries...behind the doors of the educational system". To all my teacher friends and parents, this may be worth your time...
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Aug.08.2012
I had the opportunity to get to know Don Lubov a little better. The tenth author in the One series is a man of measured words. I think you will find his answers concise, to the point and entertaining.Don Lubov, a Zen spiritualist and teacher, is the author of Story Ten: 1971. Get it...
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