Seasons
Fall is by far my favorite time of year. Even though this year in Texas fall-like weather is taking its time getting here, I know it’s coming. The relief after a long, hot, busy summer will be welcome. Football. Candy Corn. (I don’t want to hear it from the haters.) My birthday. The lead in…
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Into The Unknown
About a year ago, I wrote a post about how I had all these big plans for summer, but none of them happened. This summer was basically the same. I haven’t even posted anything here since the end of May. It doesn’t help that I spent the first week of June in Kansas City grading…
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Nostalgia
Every year in AP Seminar, the students are given a stimulus packet from College Board for their second performance task. I’ll spare you the details about PT2 (as we call it), but the basic idea is that the kids have to read through the documents, figure out the theme of the documents, and research some…
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Words of the Week…From Three Years Ago
I run out of ideas a lot. No, that’s not really true. I have multiple notebooks of topics that I could write about. It’s more a matter of sitting down and working on it. Motivation. Time. Energy. Procrastination. Anyway, I write down these ideas and then stick them in this gray notebook I have stuffed…
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Arlo, From Pomona
Author’s Note: Late last year, I entered a short story contest put on by NYC Midnight. The first round was in January with the results coming out on April 1. We were given a genre, character, and setting that had to be incorporated into a short story of 2500 words or less. We were given…
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Inflation vs Prices
In my role as an educator, I’ve worn many hats over the years. It’s funny that as knowledgeable as I am about US History and Macroeconomics (the two subjects I’ve taught most often), I would never describe myself as an “expert.” There are people who know way more about both than I do. And there…
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Reflections Of A Middle Aged Nobody 