So Tell Me A Story
One of the activities I liked to do with my high school kids was having Q&A or Tell-Me-About-Yourself sessions. It took the kids most of the first semester to feel comfortable enough to talk in detail about their lives outside of school. Once they opened up, quite a few of their responses have been pretty […]
The Brush Girl
When my brother and I were little we loved watching a [tag]Lucille Ball[/tag] movie called “The Fuller Brush Girl”. I don’t remember much about the movie, but the premise was Lucy is a door-to-door brush saleswoman who gets mixed up in a murder which results in her and fiancé Eddie Albert having a series of […]
Guns Scare Me
Tonight Stacey and I decided to walk downtown for dumplings. Just after we walked past the corner market I noticed a man learning oddly into the backseat of a Jetta. It looked like he was stretching or doing yoga. As we walked past the car I saw it wasn’t yoga–he was kneeing a man in […]
Kids Say The Darndest Things
The other day Michael happened to be in the office while a new student was being registered. The student, a boy who is probably seven years old, was there with his mother. The TA’s were telling the mother about the help available for students outside of class when the boy interrupted: “Oh, I won’t need […]