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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

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

“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”

1 year ago

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

“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.

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

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

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

1 year ago

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

“Gratitude bestows reverence…changing forever how we experience life and the world.” — John Milton

1 year ago

Thanksgiving Break is practically upon us!  The students are restless.  I am restless.  I can practically smell the pumpkin pie and cookies and…