Written recently in memory of SavorySweet's dad, who passed away very recently ( Read more... )

Five houses away from me, three weeks ago, a man was shot and killed by the police, after a car chase with the police ended by a car driving into a house. There were four men in the car. Two were arrested, one escaped and the police spent the next six hours searching for him, and one man was shot on the street, by the police, and died ( Read more... )

Funny, the big thrill about going to 80 % at work was that I would have more time to write. What's actually happened, unfortunately, is not the freedom I had hoped for. And? I'm recommitting to more regular writing -- and want to share some of it here ( Read more... )

So, I wrote to fattest that I was on the descent into eval hell -- which is what comes right after recommendation hell in my ongoing 19 day work week (day 10). I descend this slope 2x/year, thought not always quite this intensely. Work is bad, institutionally and structurally and monetarily speaking ( Read more... )

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A letter I wrote for my students before school today - because ultimately I could not stand to use the sample I wrote two years ago. Used a story I have been telling in one form or another for 20+ years -- many will recognize it. Refrain in an ongoing theme as a fat middle school teacher in a fat-phobic world.

( Dear Eric Goldberg at the age of fifteen, )

walked out of work at the end of the day simmering with anger... lots of reasons, tipping point being yet another meeting about "that" kid - someone else's child who is a bright charming human, with powerful parents, with powerful learning differences, who also cheats, lies, manipulates, avoids, detaches, deflects, covertly (and not covertly) ( Read more... )

 I know I'm sick, which is the only reason that I've slowed down enough to read all my email this afternoon, but I am really emotionally stirred by this:




"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.">vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf

blech. Have been sick forever, well for 2 weeks. That's maybe not forever, but it is when you're a sagittarius ( Read more... )

I recently realized that part of why I have drifted from lj (aside from the injured hand and no easy internet at home -- the primary villains :D) is because I am so not caught up with people's lives that I try to read my friends page and don't know whats going on with more distant folks, so I get daunted and gave up ( Read more... )