The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings December 24, 2020It is the small pieces that seriously matter not how many presents I am about to be driving around to run some errands and read a holiday post or two. One caught my attention arguing the idea of Santa’s gifts. Santa is first a legend contrived over the years and developed…

Bird Droppings December 23, 2020Possibilities “Life has no limitations; except the ones you make.” Les Brown I was sitting talking with one of my sons yesterday remembering when I was their age. I should say trying to remember when I was their age that would be more appropriate. It has been a few years since…

Bird Droppings December 22, 2020Finding a pathway even when one does not appear The past few days have all run sort of together each an interesting day be it sitting and binge-watching Big Bang Theory with my wife, cooking new ideas and eating all day long and discussing learning topics with my son who is…

Bird Droppings December 21, 2020 Waiting for a miracle I wrote this piece nearly ten years ago and it still has a place in my heart. Miracle is a word used often by people of faith. It is an explanation for things that happen with no apparent cause and or rationale. It seems we all…

Bird Droppings December 19, 2020Seeking perfection all the while mired in sterile mud It has been a quite a few years since my students were nonverbal. Back in the day as my youngest son will say, I worked in private and residential programs. My students were considered severe and profoundly mentally impaired. Other words were…

Bird Droppings December 18, 2020Can you give it one more try? “You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.” Satchel Paige often attributed to J. Askenberg It is end of semester test time in most counties. When I was teaching, I would judge seasons…

Bird Droppings December 17, 2020It is the small pieces that seriously matter “Until you can clearly see each piece of the puzzle you will never be able to understand the whole.” Frank Bird, grandfather, teacher and ponderer I am sitting here on the last week before Christmas in Between Georgia a long way from my…

Bird Droppings December 16, 2020 Teaching is ninety nine percent example I walked out a few minutes ago to get a bit of solitude. That has been hard over the holidays this year. So, it is coming in tiny increments a few moments here and there. I sat on my back porch listening to a…

Bird Droppings December 15, 2020Where is the passion? I was sitting facing a rising sun thankful for a new day yesterday a few days past, the first sunlight in many mornings. It was ironic as I was sitting on an overturned five-gallon plastic bucket next to a small circle of smooth river rocks facing east,…

Bird Droppings December 14, 2020 Building Sandcastles drip by drip It was nearly twenty years ago when I was physically attending classes in graduate school nearly every day, just before switching to Internet classes and WebCT. This took some getting used to going to school and then going to teach school. I was teaching from…