The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings February 9, 2020 An owl calling   Last night I woke for a few minutes as it turns out I forgot to turn on the ceiling fan. While up I stuck my nose out the door perhaps intuition who knows when wandering about the house half asleep. Deep in the pines an owl…

Bird Droppings February 7, 2020 Hearing an owl   “If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.”…

Bird Droppings February 6, 2020 Is it saying goodbye or is it hello?   I was thinking about Boy Scouts and a recent memory from last year. It might have been the fact I had never pulled out my Eagle Scout card from 1967 in class before that got me thinking. While mired in controversy…

Bird Droppings February 5, 2020 What if all promises were all kept?   I begin each typical morning waking up, fixing breakfast for my wife and her lunch, talking with my son for a few minutes, fixing my own breakfast and eventually finding my way to my computer. A little later I take the dog…

Bird Droppings February 4, 2020 Life is a puzzle falling into place and interconnectivity of all   It was a Monday a few years back when my co-teaching partner shared a card with me from one of our students. On the first day of the semester we handed out a card and the kids fill…

Bird Droppings February 3, 2020 To create writing, for some seems so difficult in a digital world.   “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley   In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth grade English Class. The…

Bird Droppings February 2, 2020 Solitude is within ones soul and heart   “No person, standing before this mystery, has the wisdom or the knowledge to see across the curtain. But for those who stand before their dead with aching hearts and tear-filled eyes, one affirmation endures. One truth remains…and one light shines clear. Where…

Bird Droppings January 30, 2020 Sailing off the edge and or thinking out of a box   I was thinking back nearly eleven years when history was made as a new president was sworn in and as one of my students came into class and asked to start working on his assignments. I did not…

Bird Droppings January 29, 2020 Horses and Trains and learning   It has been many years since I last rode on a train. I mean a serious train going more than the distance between concourses at an airport. Years ago, when I lived in the Philadelphia area, we all used mass transit to commute, to…

Bird Droppings January 28, 2020 It be great if we could script great teachers   I watched several various movies about teachers over the years. It hit me as I was thinking it would be great if we could somehow provide a package to new Techers on how to do great teaching. If someone could…