The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings March 26, 2023A morning meandering while the moon is glowing Almost eight years ago, after tutoring in an after-school program with a student who needs constant repetition of material to remember, I read through several old emails from my doctorate and graduate cohort friends as some are defending their dissertations in the coming…

Bird Droppings March 22, 2023The inability to surmount learning difficulties It has been a few days since my last post. I have been extremely occupied with surgery Tuesday and recovering the past few days. Last week I had several doctor appointments, ultrasounds, blood work, and more doctors made it a crazy week. It seems my…

Bird Droppings March 17, 2023An eclectic morning “Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.” Mahatma Gandhi It has been quite a few years since I watched an episode of Star Trek. It may have been one of the movies where Spock interfered with Star…

Bird Droppings March 12, 2023Can we teach a love of learning again? This has been a perplexing time of my life out of the classroom, giving advice here and there to fellow teachers, parents, and students. I recall a car wreck in which a young man died, and his passenger, my youngest son’s and my…

Bird Droppings March 11, 2023Are we going in the right direction? I reviewed my student’s online work status three years ago. A couple of surprises and some that were not. I thought that when the virus finally moved on and the smoke cleared, some grades would go up, and some would drop. We were told…

Bird Droppings February 9, 2023What is the freedom we desire? “Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom and dignity. It is not enough, as communist systems have assumed, merely to provide people with food, shelter, and clothing. Human nature needs to breathe the precious air of…

Bird Droppings February 26, 2023All of life is connected and intertwined. I went out on my back porch for breakfast this morning, and I had gone out to get a few pictures of the sunrise but another morning of black and white sunrises in the cloud cover. I often turn my Merline Bird app on…

Bird Droppings February 25, 2023A series of paradoxes and bewilderment I received the following in an email back a few days. A friend of mine sent it out, and as I read it the first time, it was humorous. However, as I pondered then, as a teacher, I read deeper into what was being said.…

Bird Droppings February 22, 2023It has been a long time I was sitting along the edge of reality one evening a few days back after having a bad day with bronchitis and asthma. Somewhere I was in my backyard listening to the wind blows through the pines; it seemed pine trees make a better sound…

Bird Droppings February 18, 2023Doing what you love is not work, even if you are tired at the end of the day. “To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?” Katharine Graham I learn something daily as I wander the internet and read books I find along…