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Friday, December 22, 2006

GIVE ME NEWT, OR GIVE ME INDEPENDANCE: QUEST. FOR CONSERVATIVE BLOGGERS

Sleep at last. I have slept four times, four hours or less, since Wednesday. I am feeling much better. I got so tired I couldn't sleep. That's the one thing I hate about being overworked. You get to a point of exhaustion when sleep simply will not come, although you are lying patiently in bed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 21, 2006

THAT'S FINE FOR US BUT WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THESE BLOGGERS?

I just got out of the dentist chair having my oldest filling replaced. There was a visiting intern observing, a junior at University of Iowa Dental School. We chatted, and I was buying a few extra minutes until the novacaine was completely activated. They were sharing stories of classroom teachers,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

BLOGGERS HOUSEHOLD NOW A DORM SITE AND SORORITY CRASH PAD

Today was the final school day before winter holiday. The 8th graders had mini-classes all day in variety games for the holiday season; the seventh graders engaged in a combination of reward activities and films; the sixth graders spent the morning shoping with the "funny money" they had earned... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

BLOGGERS WHO BELIEVE THEIR PARENTS ARE PROUD OF THEM

I'm sitting at Starbucks trying to recreate the magic from Friday night. I have sipped at the espresso quad, the bottle of water. I guess I'm too tired to be brilliant. I'll relate the comic strip that made me laugh last week. Doonesbury was lame today. Do you remember Uncle Duke? His misadventures... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 18, 2006

ANY COMPLAINTS, KEEP THEM TO YOURSELF I'm GETTING DAMN TIRED OF THEM!

See how I get on Sundays? Every little tick of the Richter Scale sends me, on Sundays, deep within my inchoate and cavernous heart looking for solutions. Why I can't just let it be I'll never know. My issues pale compared to so many of the people I know and love. Mainly my kids are my constant... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 17, 2006

GRIEF-FOR-BLOGGERS, HOW I DEAL WITH LOSING FRIENDS LIKE BLANCHE

I had a really fun day. It is my youngest daughter's birthday. She worked all weekend and so I took her to the new mall and let her do some shopping. Then she met up with her best friend and they carried on shopping and stopping for egg rolls at a favorite cafe. She just got home less than an hour... Sign in to see full entry.

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BLANCHE, FROM NOW ON YOU ARE US AND WE ARE YOU, WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT.

Friendship, a marriage of spirits, does not end simply because one or the other friend dies. It seems so, at first. But as one gains acceptance of the other's demise and loses the doubt and anger at having lost someone so valuable to us, one begins to see a more mature reality. That person is still... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Blanche's Dream Has Come to Fruition, At Least in the Funnies.

My daughter has to work overtime at the superstore, so I have camped out at the Starbucks just across the parking lot. The atmosphere is so great in here. The music is an eclectic collection of jazz, pop, 40's, Carribean and classical. An amazing achievement really. Just when you tire of one style,... Sign in to see full entry.

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BLOGGERS WHO ACHIEVE BHUDDA EXISTANCE THROUGH FORGIVENESS

Bhaskar.ing is schooled in the eastern philosophies, as you know if you have read many of his posts. They are places where you can turn to find out how man -- civilizations before America -- coped. He makes the point that man has evolved to a place of high spiritual belonging -- if I understand him... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

THE RETURN OF THE QUEEN.................

Well, the excitement is building at school. Here's the scenario. We have been doing cooperative learning activities involving our ESL approved text of vocabulary in content areas, which I have cleverly presented as Spelling. Students have said, read, written the words, looked them up in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Traditonal life in American mainstream education. Area of concentration -- English as a Second Language. My take on the issues and "what really works" (when my kids let me log on).

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