JUST WANTED TO HEAR WHAT YOU WOULD SAY Another new FB “old friend” has found me. A real talent in so many ways. The best musician I ever performed with on stage, an engineer for IBM, now designing and making parts for automatic weapons. It was the summer of 1977. We put together a band to play on... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
NEXT MAGIC CARPET TO 1968
It must have been the year of the local bus strike. My high school pals and I had coordinated our parents to and from school, before and after, which usually left some parent eager to do weekend transport duty. This was the Winter Tournament at Tates Creek HIgh School. We had conned a ride from one... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Mutability Which are the trees that lose their leaves so early in October? Isn’t there a generic name, a botanical class? And which stand firm and full, nearly to the end, against the atrocity of autumn? One admires them so, for their resistance to change, to the inevitable. One longs to be just the... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Life in the Classroom, After Retirement
In week five of my substitute teaching job in a big Des Moines high school, on the right side of the tracks -- French 1 and Spanish 2 -- it appeared that we were in need of an attitude adjustment. The ninth graders weren't memorizing vocabulary, and we were at the end of Unit 1; Sophomores were too... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, September 27, 2010
SOMETHING LESS CONTROVERSIAL
Yesterday during my recovery session (on the couch) I lost track of the TV switcher. Non-compost mentis for sure. Anyways, it was late afternoon and Mr. Gray, the kids' cat, was perched in hunting mode right in front of my footstool. On the footstool was the laptop computer, opened and blocking my... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
IS THAT LIKE CHILD ABUSE? OR TO NOT DO IT LIKE NEGLECT?
Out running errands this morning, in front of me there was a mom running after a laughing girl, maybe four, who was running for the exit. Out there the parking lot looms as mom's worst nightmare for her unattended child, so she hurries. "Honey, stop. Dad's just stopped to talk to someone, real... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, September 20, 2010
HOW TO LOOSEN A JAR FROM THE NOSE OF A BEAR
This afternoon after school I drove downtown to get some copies made at Kinkos. As I was leaving the building, there was what looked like a 2nd grade class walking across the crosswalk, holding hands, either returning from the library, or going across to the main building to catch the bus. Last year... Sign in to see full entry.
OBAMA VS PALIN IN 2012
Sarah Palin announced this week that she has decided to run for president in 2012. She did it obliquely with a trip to Iowa. Here in Des Moines she told her adoring fans and supporters, which go well beyond Tea Party activism: I would give it a shot...If the American people were to be ready for... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
ALLOWING MYSELF A BIT OF A RANT: MORAL MAJORITY ZOMBIES
Glenn Beck (to the extent that he exists at all) is just a crazy Tea Party fascist. Belong to my group or you 'just don't get it'. Obama is a racist, and I'm here to draw you closer to religion. Moral Majority Zombies are allowed to be judgemental where the rest of us must abstain or face charges by... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
NO 'PUTER, SPANISH 2 & FRENCH 1 ROCKING: 100% PARTICIPATION
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