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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Why Grandma Does Not Have Steps

When Cousin Amanda was a toddler, she, Grandma and I were in Grandma's backyard, where Amanda was riding her tricycle. Out of the blue, Amanda stopped. "Grandma doesn't have steps in her house because she's old," she declared. Back she was to peddling her tricycle. "She had to have gotten that from... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

The Lecturer and the Singer

I used to hate going to Mass at my Catholic High School during my first two years at the school. Once a month, during the school year, students and faculty would convene in the auditorium, where monthly Mass was celebrated in the morning. There were two reasons as to why I hated going to Mass at my... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Better Late Than Never

Back when I was in high school, in the early 2000s, I would carry on me a dollar in quarters in case I needed to make a phone call on the school's payphones. With phone calls at fifty cents, a dollar was good for two phone calls. The school did not allow cellphones, and I did not like cellphones,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Rich with Perspectives

Methods of Teaching Social Studies was one of the few courses I took at Loyola College that was open to undergraduate and graduate students. Therefore, the ages of my peers and I ranged from nineteen through fifty-seven. Half of the sixteen member class were undergraduate students while the obvious... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Lamborghini

Brian Gabber's second grade teacher was Ms. Lambor. Of course, I just had to refer to her as Ms. Lamborghini during my tutoring sessions with him, which always elicited cute little kid admonishment from Brian. "She's not a car," he would say. One day, he said to me, "I would like to thank you." "Oh,... Sign in to see full entry.

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