Posts Tagged ‘mark’s remarks’

“That’s something kids today will never know about.” How many times do you say that as you grow older?   Michelle and I were talking about cartoons the other day…

Last week was “Walk and Roll To School Day.” I don’t know the origin, but I think it’s been around since the late 1990s. Someone asked me if it was…

One of the things I’m really going to miss about teaching in a school with a bunch of hooligans is the pranks that usually begin to crop up around this…

I’m trying to remember my early days as a teacher, conjuring up memories of the “hardships” we like to tell stories about when young teachers complain about the internet being…

Michelle is a good match for me, because she often has fanciful ideas that end up being excellent ones.   After I unintentionally pop her idea bubble, bring up boring…

“Have you met Marybeth yet?”   My friends who already knew her said we just had to meet. I had no idea who this Marybeth was. People kept telling me…

Sometimes when I am majorly fed up with some of my own children and their idiosyncrasies, I try very hard to reach back in the recesses of my memory and…

When the end of summer rolls around, I begin to remember things I knew as a kid. I remember the katydids and crickets singing as the sun was going down.…

With each passing year, I am amazed at how quickly time goes by.  I’ve said it before, again and again, so much so that I risk the thought of you…

In the past few years, I’ve noticed that people don’t want to hear from anyone they disagree with, because people who disagree with them make them feel uncomfortable or not…

We have not had the best track record with dogs.   Our first two dogs met untimely deaths, one accidentally and the other due to health issues.  Both deaths were…