“Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.” For you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that few things indeed were really impossible. I felt a push and pull, of claustrophobia and agoraphobia. […]
Read More Size and ShapeShutting up is really the more interesting part of teaching. Now, I like to mouth off and tell people what to do. Don’t get me wrong. But watching the kids listen is amazing. We had a poet come in to meet some students yesterday. This guy is from where they are from. He says a […]
Read More SnappingFor eight years, I didn’t sleep in the same bed more than four nights in a row. The only thing worse than your parents having joint custody is every other kind of scheme they could try. Joint custody is capitalism for kids of divorce. Still bad, but the best we’ve some up with. Apologies to […]
Read More Roots1. He was a writer who just happens to be on TV. You could see that the words were more important than the images. I mean, take a look at that office. Even my classroom (and certainly my home writing desk) look cooler than that. 2. The jowls! The wrinkles! The slouching! You got a […]
Read More Andy Rooney, How I Loved Thee…Let Me Count the Ways.
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