The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings January 4, 2017 Tripping on a grain of sand and naming your baby Bentley   I was so very close to starting this day with the title of Bentley, however as I thought further some might elude that to a rather pricey car. Many years back I had a swimmer on the high…

Bird Droppings January 3, 2017 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 2, 2017 The fragility of life   Early this morning I was awakened a bit early our dog and we both needed to take a potty break. Hearing what I thought was rain and a teenager I assume tearing out of our subdivision about two in the morning did not help my…

Bird Droppings January 1, 2017 Building Sandcastles drip by drip   It was nearly sixteen years ago when I was physically attending classes in graduate school nearly every day and 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…

Bird Droppings December 29, 2016 Can teachers use learning as their pallet?   I wrote the basics of this article nearly twelve years ago and at the time was thinking of an artist friend who was trying to define her art as well as searching for her own meaning in life. My friend often reflects…

Bird Droppings December 21, 2016 It is the small pieces that seriously matter the most   “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 day of school before the Christmas…

Bird Droppings December 20, 2016 Why do we fail?   Many the times, I have wondered why people stop learning. I see it in high school students, in college and in graduate students. Almost as if a switch is thrown and poof no more learning I have reached my limit. I had a teacher approach…

Bird Droppings December 19, 2016 There are always possibilities “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. I was thinking…

Bird Droppings December 16, 2016 Understanding the symbols of life “Symbols express and represent meaning. Meaning helps provide purpose and understanding in the lives of human beings. Indeed to live without symbols is to experience existence far short of its full meaning. Ways of expressing and representing meaning include the symbol systems of mathematics, spoke…