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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

She responded, "Dad, don't even..." Whatever that means.

Well, I have to report on the last two days of school. First of all the principal commented over the public address system at how mature and responsible the whole school was when we had our "horse" emergency Friday afternoon. Come to find out that it was our new student, Lorenzo's father, who got... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, September 17, 2005

My "save-the-world" complex takes a back seat to the needs of a few.......

Greetings to my friends here on the blogit! network. I have spent the day reading Nelson DeMille's 1980-something thriller entitled Babylon. One character who resigns his cabinet position as security chief, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, mentions that the hectic, stressful life of action is... Sign in to see full entry.

I felt as if I were flying low at about seventy miles per hour.............

We were treated to a rare sight at the end of school today. A horse had escaped from the local horse farm down the road, and chose the front yard of the school to stop, eat some grass, and reconnoitre his decision-making. We lead our students to the buses calmly, so as not to spook the horse, and... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

He replied, "oh, I see. Well, I can feel the magic working."..............

I'll call him Carlos (not his real name). He flunked the eighth grade in a school across town. He appears to have been a non-attender, which goes hand in hand with academic failure. His parents registered him with us in August, as the district had required that he complete the eighth grade before... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, September 11, 2005

Damnation by such feint praise is a conviction for steroid abuse...........

Well, I had a wonderful day today. Just about the time I started to feel like my weekend of restfulness was turning into a "time out", I got dressed and went for a long walk. I varied my pattern a good deal. I was trying to get into the local high school football field stadium. It is now so... Sign in to see full entry.

If one is not making progress, then one is losing ground...................

This morning I sat at the local IHOP, drinking orange juice, eating eggs and toast. Directly across from me, at roughly ten o'clock, sat a fine-looking couple, evidently married, or at least together for the morning. He was ignoring her as if she were the hired help. She was patiently chewing and... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, September 10, 2005

I hit the front brakes instead of the rear, and flipped head over heals

It was a beautiful one hundred eighty miles in ten days. Surely it was close to 250 for the three week total. Any way, I had fun and got lots of fresh air on my bicycle. However, all good things must come to an end. On Wednesday night, I had taken my break halfway of my thrice weekley thirty-mile... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

Her mother had a turkey in the barnyard, which always chased my mother

Well, thanks to flamethrower, schree, Flightpath and Ca88i. As some of you know we nearly lost my mother last winter. She fell on the Thursday before Christmas. You know what she was doing? At the age of eighty-six, she was preparing a full-scale turkey dinner for us to share. She keeps saying, if... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 5, 2005

Mental complaining is a dead end road. Been there and took up the piano

Again my mother astonishes me with her insight. She reminded me today that when we were growing up there on Main St. in that little farm house, that on Labor Day weekend, the whole neighborhood seemed to be gone. We felt like we were the only family on the block. So we fired up the grill, bought a... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, September 4, 2005

The Godfather meets the Great Gatsby: How life can be so pointless for some

I am exhausted from simply resting all day. I have found several new books by Nelson DeMille. The Gold Coast is a "Godfather meets the Great Gatsby" and should not be missed. Circa 1992. I started Cathedral but put it down when I lost interest in the plot. It seems an IRA terrorist has taken over a... 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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