Friday, January 27, 2023
The Times to Vacation
Our annual Myrtle Beach and Ocean City, Maryland vacations took place in the middle of June and August, respectively. Dad and I would do an annual trip to a city to visit a different baseball stadium everywhere. During my K through 12 years, that vacation could occur in July or August. When I got to...
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Sunday, January 22, 2023
Rigorous Course
Out of the four English teachers I had in high school, Mr. Hopps' sophomore English was the most rigorous of all. There was homework just about every day in the course. Homework in the other English varied. I could go days without homework elsewhere. There was more writing in the course. What made...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Motor Coach
I'll never forget in third grade when my class went to Washington DC. What was most memorable about it for me was not the stops we made. What was memorable was that it was my first time in a motor coach bus. I had only done field trips by walking or by school bus. Taking a motor coach bus was...
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Sunday, January 15, 2023
Checks, Late, Resubmissions
When it comes to Mr. Hopps, one of the things that stand out to me was his grading system. The way sophomore English worked out was that you started off with a homework average of 85. If you received a check, the average stayed the same. A check minus meant a subtraction of two percentage points. A...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Aunt Betty Update 1/11/2023
The latest news on Aunt Betty came from Dad who received it from my cousin Carey, Aunt Betty's daughter. Aunt Betty has had several rounds of radiation. She cannot receive chemotherapy because cancer is around her ceratoid artery. The radiation has not caused any adverse effects. What was affecting...
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