Just For Fun Friday 11/01/13
The Morning After I don’t know why I bother. I live in an area in the country where there are 8-10 houses, 200 feet apart, on a dirt road, then nothing for about a half mile, then another smattering of homes. There’s a trailer park down the road, too. I see children in the mornings, gathered at […]
My First Lesson
Mrs. Pruett, ninth grade English, Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1962-63. This is always my answer when asked “Who was your favorite teacher?” She made us work. We were the accelerated English class, and she stocked one of those metal storage cabinets in the corner of the classroom with 10th, 11th, and 12th grade English textbooks for us […]
Just For Fun Friday 09/27/13
Some things are the same the world over…. Bangkok Hong Kong
Signs of the Times
Remember the Virginia Slims ads that proclaimed “You’ve come a long way, baby”? Well, we have progressed a lot. When I was pregnant in 1970, I was a clerk for a school district. Up to that point, teachers were given maternity leave but not administrative workers. I received the first maternity leave allowed for that group of employees. Come to […]
Ripples On Our Ponds
On September 1 – my birthday – I poured a cup of coffee and started up my computer. I checked e-mail, then Facebook, and discovered many greetings. What a great way to start the day! I replied to each of them, considering the Mad Hatter’s idea of an Un-birthday. Just think. A birthday every day […]
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