teaching
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The Pedometer Contest
Oh, the tyranny of a tiny purple belt attachment. The health care provider at work was so kind as to give each plan participant a pedometer recently. They also are sponsoring a contest to encourage us to be more active, become more healthy, and thereby cost the plan less to maintain us. I see their Continue reading
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Frozen Fog
Frozen fog? I’ve listened to a lot of weather reports over the years, but this morning’s was a first. Frozen fog was causing accidents all over Carroll County. The pre-caffeinated brain has trouble conceptualizing this. How can fog freeze? Isn’t that oxymoronic? Isn’t fog water suspended in the air? If it freezes, wouldn’t that make Continue reading
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Pioneers in the woods…or is it wood?
This week we hosted a Pioneer Day at Maywood for the new international students at school. The ESL history teacher had shown the students Colonial House and told them that I lived like that…sort of. Well, ok, yeah, I live like that except that I have indoor plumbing, electricity, 2 zoned heat and AC, high speed Continue reading
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Hip chronicles: The bionic woman vs. the athletes
Here’s a little quiz. You will know my correct answers by the end of this post. 1. What does IT stand for? a. information technology b. iliotibial band c. idiot teenager 2. What does TFL stand for? a. texting as a foreign language b. Tahitian Football League c. tensor fascia latae 3. What does GM stand Continue reading
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Back in the Saddle…and My Back-to-School Techno-Rant
I haven’t written a blog post since June when I was still on narcotics after hip-replacement surgery. Surgery is not the reason for the blog famine. There are oodles of topics that have been crashing around in my feeble little brain. No…the real reason I haven’t written is because of my Ipad. I am going to blame Continue reading
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Busy as…
With the school year heading into its final stretch, I’m feeling as busy as a bee. And I’m feeling about as productive as the honeybees in our yard. Oh wait, we don’t have any honeybees in our yard. The 44,000 bees we ordered from Georgia haven’t arrived yet. We have carpenter bees in droves, doing their destructive thing and Continue reading
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Life-long learning…
Teachers are constantly astounded at how much there is to learn. We are so surprised that, some days, it’s what draws us to the classroom. Other days, it makes us want to hide under our warm comfy covers until summer. What lack of knowledge will we face today? This past week, the teachers at my school were encouraged to work Continue reading
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March mudness
Unless you’re into basketball, is there anything to like about March? St. Patrick’s Day, perhaps. You have to wonder, though, if St. Patrick’s day was really originally in March or if the Irish just wanted to bless us all with an official drinking holiday in this most dreary of months. Many people hate the month of Continue reading
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My own medicine
Last week I made my ESL students write three paragraphs on a single topic to three different audiences with potentially three different purposes–to inform, to persuade, or to entertain. I gave them four possible topics with the option of picking their own. They moaned and groaned about how mean I was. You would have thought they were Continue reading
Slightly Off the Grid 