The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings December 11, 2023 Waiting for a miracle I wrote this piece nearly eighteen 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. We all sit waiting…

Bird Droppings December 8, 2023How we perceive is often the beginning of the discussion. A dear friend brought up a conversation with a flat earth believer the other day. This person he had been talking with essentially disavowed science in many areas. My son offered that Mars is visibly round from a telescope and, for…

Bird Droppings December 3, 2023 Sitting, wondering, pondering, and dishwashing Several earlier readings on the internet got me thinking and pondering as I do in a roundabout way. So often, we take our technology for granted.  It has been about seventeen years since we moved into this house and a brand-new dishwasher. About six years…

Bird Droppings November 30, 2023 Teaching as improvisational art using learning as the pallet I wrote the basics of this article nearly sixteen years ago and thought of an artist friend, now a computer programmer, trying to define her art and searching for her meaning in life. My friend often reflected her political views and…

Bird Droppings November 26, 2023Perhaps, within ourselves, is the change we need? I have been away from my computer for a few minutes. Hopefully, by Thursday, I will be emailing my second edited chapter to my dissertation chair. I have a feeling of accomplishment and ending my procrastination. I am not complaining, but I enjoy…

Bird Droppings November 23, 2023I am always finding where community exists. I am sitting listening to Allman Brother’s Fillmore East on a cool Thanksgiving morning. After a few days of sunshine and warm fall weather, rain is coming in, and the temperature has changed. As I drove to the corner store yesterday, I had several…

Bird Droppings November 20, 2023 Finding solace along the way A few days ago, a good friend said I could read every word in Bird Droppings today, and I did not think I used too many fancy words, although I have a bad habit of inventing words. They said there were no fancy high-fangled words…

Bird Droppings November 18 Teachers need to consult their hearts I don’t know what happens when people die.Can’t seem to grasp it as hard as I tryIt’s like a song I can hear playing right in my ear.But I can’t sing, I can’t help listening…..Crying as they ease you down Jackson Brown, For a Dancer…

Bird Droppings November 17, 2023 Do we teach, or are we taught “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein So many times, when discussing students who are having difficult times, an individual teacher’s perspective is all that matters. Recently, I was about to thump another teacher in the head,…

Bird Droppings November 16, 2023So many thoughts for one day, including CRT Far too many folks do not have a clue about CRT. In most cases, it is a discussion in graduate school. Some would say teaching the battle of Wounded Knee as a massacre instead of the last great battle with the plains Indians…