I have a friend who recently shipped out for Marine Basic Training. I recently received a letter from him. I got immediately to reading in spite of all other "things-to-do" I had pending. He is doing well, and managing at staying out of the radar of bad things in training. He's a good Marine. I felt more connected and a greater sense of urgency and ( Read more... )

I have been working on focusing my students in learning a little bit about Veteran's Day instead of doing the tired turkey curriculum most elementary art teachers usually push for November. I will state I am not criticizing elementary school teachers for teaching Thanksgiving in November, it is the dominant holiday. My students learned about ( Read more... )

I needed to get a little bit more grounded and centered before I wrote on this ( Read more... )

Back in December I had started a fitness regimen which has provided admirable results as far as my general health, and stamina. I was working out regularly, six days a week and was pretty disciplined as far as keeping up with my workouts and what I ate. Apparently not well enough. Somehow in my efforts to help fill out my slender near insubstantial ( Read more... )

So in a reverse chronological order ( Read more... )

I think if students are going to call me names behind my back, and I can hear them, they should just grow a spine and say it to may face... maybe then I can respect you more for your honesty than think less of you for your brazen cowardice ( Read more... )

Today my car was broken into and robbed.
they did not steal the radio, or the CD's or the jumper cables. They stole my art supplies which came in earlier today.

Joke's over now...
I laughed...
It's not funny anymore.

I will probably be ranting and bitching about this hiccup in my workplace, but when you teach art and have 4 times your weight in art supplies to move and account for, this is a big deal ( Read more... )

As opposed to what I do to myself in the mornings ( Read more... )

I received this in an e-mail and thought it made some sense... however, I do not see any reason why any congressman will pass this as the are too attached to their "careers". They are not going to fix what is not already severely broken ( Read more... )