Deadman’s Curve

Memory Lane

Memory Lane: The Field
In 1978, I turned eight in August. Behind my house sat a nearly 100 acre wood, as A. A. Milne would say. We called it the field, because that’s what it was. Nothing but trees and long tall wheat grass swaying in the breeze as far as my four-foot-something tall eyes could [...]

Vote for Willy!

I’ve entered Willy into the Bissell MVP contest.  Here’s the photo, now go vote!
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Cheer Up File

Back in 2001, when I first began to teach fourth graders at Top of the World Elementary, someone told me there would be bad days.  Days when I wasn’t sure why I was teaching, days when parents weren’t nice to me, days when students didn’t do their work, days when I would doubt I made [...]

GMA

This morning I watched a program with a hidden camera posted at a deli in Linden, New York.  The set up was to see how people in the deli reacted to a display of racism by the supposed cook/owner toward a couple of Mexian day laborers.  The first man took the side of the cook, [...]

Love Your Mother

I don’t like to argue.  I don’t enjoy lecturing.  But there are a couple things which I feel very strongly about and one of those things is to not litter.  Put trash where it belongs, in the container.  Why is that so hard for some folks?  Why do people not care about all the trash [...]