The daily meanderings of a teacher

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…

Bird Droppings January 27, 2020 Can we say true heroism and humility are spelled the same?   “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” Arthur Ashe   Even though I am one of the…

Bird Droppings January 26, 2020 The fragility of life   Early this morning I was awakened by our dog and we both needed to take a potty break. Hearing what I thought was rain, more than likely a teenager’s car rumbling and popping. Whoever went tearing out of our subdivision about two in the morning…

Bird Droppings January 24, 2020 Looking within to who we really are   Where do I start several key elements of my day yesterday brought about thinking and pondering that lead me to now? It has been nearly ten years since I would sit with students and start talking about James Kavanaugh, author, poet, thinker…

Bird Droppings January 23, 2020 Caregiving and or cared for, we need both?   “To care and be cared for are fundamental human needs. We all need to be cared for by other human beings. In infancy, illness, or old age, the need is urgent and pervasive; we need caregiving, and we need the special…