“How do poems grow?  They grow out of your life.”  ―  Robert Penn Warren

National Poetry Month is marching onward almost as fast as the school year is marching onward towards its terminus!  Since testing…

8 months ago

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”  ―  Oscar Wilde

It’s National Poetry Month!  I was not a fan of poetry when I was in school, and when I first started…

9 months ago

“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.”  ―  Charles Kettering

A couple of days ago I received a review on my comparative analysis lesson for Lois Lowry’s The Giver and the 1998…

9 months ago

“And though she be but little, she is fierce.”  ―  Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

It is Women’s History month.  I actually did not know there was a Women’s History month.  I sat down to type this…

10 months ago

“Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marchin’ across your face.” Dolly Parton, Steel Magnolias

The march through February continues rapidly apace!  Now that the theatrics of Valentine’s is another year away, I can continue mostly…

10 months ago

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments; love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove.”  ―  William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116”

Ah, February.  Love is in the air.  The balloons, the carnations, the absolutely unnecessary sugar consumption in the halls.  Valentine’s Day, really the…

11 months ago

“Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”  ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury.

Ahhhhh, it’s not only clocks that slay time. Admins are pretty good at it too.  The meetings that everyone are forced…

11 months ago

“…We’ll take cup of kindness yet / for auld lang syne.”  ― Robert Burns

Wow, 2024.  Another calendar year down and half a school year to go!  Those two weeks of Christmas break go by so…

12 months ago

“Time flies over us, but leave its shadow behind.”  — Nathaniel Hawthorne

And the close of November is upon us.  Where did my favorite month go?  The inflatable neighborhood yard turkeys have given way…

1 year ago