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“The Asphalt in Our Hearts”
I’ve been on the road quite of bit of late. In fact, I have been one hundred and twenty miles on the road. On foot. In the past three months. There is something almost Campbell-like in all of this....
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“Our Old Thoughts May Fail Us; The Word Still Fits. . .”
Imagine our life is a piece of paper upon which our story might be told. A text with four corners. Write your name upon that paper so that we know it is yours. Should you lose this, we’ll want to make...
View ArticleDigital Learning Day 2013: LiveBinders
I am so excited to offer a post related to digital learning on Digital Learning Day 2013. I am also excited to be able to share this post with and through my friends at the National Center for Family...
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“The Weak Before. . .”
So, that’s official. Twelve running miles logged on February 9th, 2013. The longest run to date. Or, for that matter, ever. And it comes five months into a running journey. And a week before my 43rd...
View ArticleReading Rants: Get Those Readers Out of the Box!
Yesterday was my birthday. A tip for new bloggers. Always begin your blog with something that will prompt your readers and followers to respond. Here, we use chronological progression and celebration....
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“May the WONDER Be With You. . .”
There is this scene in STAR WARS wherein Luke is first “getting those droids cleaned up before dinner.” You probably remember it. Luke is scraping R2-D2 with a tool when he remarks: “Wow, you’ve got a...
View ArticleFrom MRA 2013: “Shrug”
For those of you who have asked for the poem from Saturday’s presentation, here it is for a brief period of time. I am actually embarrassed by how rough this is, having written it at about 4:30 in the...
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“When We Meet Again. . .”
In the past week, I have seen two students who have been in either Room 210 or Room 407 in the past couple of years in, or on, the news. Both of these students have cases pending against them and...
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“Give Me One Test; Make It Timed” (a parody of “One Moment in Time”)
I was having a little fun thinking about Whitney Houston’s “One Moment in Time” this morning and I posted a status update at Facebook with a potential chorus. I was thinking about how this very song...
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“Rise and Chime. . .”
(glass chime image courtesy of windchimecentral.com) Late last summer, our local Rite-Aid had a special on wind chimes. These were the very chimes I had been eyeing since early spring when they were...
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“The World with You in It” (A Message for YOU)
(The “Angel of Wonder” from Kristie Hankins’s Collection) Twice this weekend, I have been in a conversation regarding a young person who made the ultimate decision to end their life as a result of a...
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“26 Points To You” (for My Running Family)
Hello. Like You, I run. Well…I just started running. Back in September of 2012. I had always run while I was in the Navy (when as Billy Joel might sing I “wore a younger man’s clothes”). But this kind...
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“There—Out There/ There—In There” “There.” A word you can hardly hear and not think about place: on the key ring on the table at the farm with the windmill at the lake with the sandbar near the city...
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Parody Time!: “Pretty Screwed” (To the Tune of Taylor Swift’s “22″)
(Image Courtesy of Unreality Shout Out) A little fun this morning for all of our friends, across the country, who are probably sitting in cafeterias and presentation rooms (I can smell the coffee and...
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“Somebody. Human.”
(Image Courtesy of The Hankins Ranch Family Archives) One day, it hits you. You’re somebody. Human. And you might go out of the yard down your street into town to tell another somebody what you’ve...
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“The Language We’ll Be Speaking. . .The Stories We Will Share”
Our First Books and Bagels Group Met on September 3rd to Discuss The Catcher in the Rye Tomorrow, a number of students and teachers will return to school. It was always this way for me as a child in...
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“I’m Lennie and I Know It”: A George Steinbeck/LMFAO Mash-up
“I’m Lennie and I Know It” (To the tune of LMFAO’s “I’m Sexy and I Know It” This is really a performance piece, I think. It will need some ad lib from the book to fill in the repeating lines. As...
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“On Whatever Surface We Find Their Names”: For Veteran’s Day
“On Whatever Surface We Find Their Names” for Veteran’s Day, 2009 To the veteran family member whose wife I took care of early into the morning of her passing. Fair winds and following seas to her. ....
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“Nuts” to Numbers, Contests, and Prizes. . .
There are at least three times I will try to go our local Goodwill in Floyds Knobs. Once in the spring (your cleaning is my gleaning). Once in the fall (converting your college student’s room into...
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One Step. . .Into the New
You could choose a metaphor for a new year by looking at a picture of a road. One originating from an unknown location. Let’s call it 2013. And stretching into the distance. Let’s call it 2014. But,...
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