Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Not Feeling My Usual Zest To Kick Off A New School Year. Really, All I Want is Time for More Sleep and Relaxing.

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Maybe at year 19 of running classrooms, one finally gets the jaded apathy monster embedded in his brain. I love teaching, and this summer...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

And Then, Later On Tonight, We Should Build a Fire To Celebrate The School Year Upon Us. Um, Okay.

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Chitunga bought me a fire pit for father's day, and although we landscaped the backyard to accommodate it, we haven't put it to...
Monday, September 5, 2016

Well, Hermine. You Were A Total Buzz Kill, But We Were Ready. You Just Had a Different Plan

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Well, so much for a day indoors trying to accomplish the impossible. It was mighty nice outside and we headed to Sea Side Park in anticip...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

Channeling Ms. Twiggley, Today. I Don't Live in a Tree, but If The Hurricane Winds Arrive, I Offer Refuge

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Hurricane Hermine is now a tropical storm and they've issued a warning to southern Connecticut that we might have some wind and rain....
Saturday, September 3, 2016

I Want To Post a Video of My Dog Post-Tranquilizer, But I Will Post a Bug Bite Instead

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Right thigh. This is the healing. Two days ago it was ridiculous, so much so that I thought I had a tick in me and it was creating a Lyme...
Friday, September 2, 2016

This Is For Teachers, In Celebration of a New School Year, In Celebration of All That You Do...All That You Are.

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For Teachers Beginning the 2016 School Year This may be your first year, This may be your 5th year, This may be your last year, or ...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

CNY Colleges Have Us By a Week, But Our K-12 Schools Are A Week Ahead Of Them. Summer is Over People

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Edem fell asleep on the couch last night, and when he got ready to head out for the day he was wearing orange....Syracuse Orange. I said,...