The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings May 4, 2022Occasionally we need to learn again about the Rock and the Smoke High school students always ask questions about religion. As we get into evolution, especially in biology. Occasionally I get someone who wants to prove a point. A young lady brought in her father’s sermon on creation and how the…

Bird Droppings May 3, 2022My friend Trooper, pondering, remembering, and digesting the stories Forty-nine years ago, I was a student at Mercer University in Macon Georgia; I had moved south only a few months before from Pennsylvania. Macon was new to me and I will admit I was a bit naive at the time. In…

Bird Droppings April 29 & 30, 2022Should we sharpen the machete or bring a shovel? I have been reflecting over the concept of critical pedagogy and in that reflection, I recall an incident nearly forty years ago that calls to mind my own interpretation and understanding of what we as teachers are all about. I…

Bird Droppings April 28, 2022A rock flower and song A journey begins with a step, and apathy begins with turning your back and saying I don’t care. Before we left school for the virus last year, I had my last IEP. I recall my laptop was acting weirder than usual, and all of my school…

Bird Droppings April 27, 2022Driving up a mountain takes considerable effort. I am looking forward to another trip to Black Rock Mountain in North Georgia, the site of the Foxfire Museum property. In the past, the site was used as a focus of Piedmont College’s teacher’s class in The Foxfire Approach to teaching. My oldest…

Bird Droppings April 26, 2022Unwoke folks used Pronouns first One of those days yesterday, and a word caught my attention as I was listening to a friend talk. The word was them. I never realized the extent of prejudice till a pronoun was used. Such words as they, them, or those people never were a…

Bird Droppings April 25, 2022I was quietly listening to Hot Tuna and pondering the word inspiration. It has been some time since I was made aware of Hot Tuna’s band. Sitting here listening to their music takes me back to 1973 or 4 in Macon, Georgia, and the fellow I went to school with. We…

Bird Droppings April 22, 2022 Eating some leftover chicken parmesan and thinking about the circle of life A couple of days ago, I made a huge pan of chicken parmesan and had plenty of leftovers. So I am sitting at my computer working on my Birddroppings and dissertation, eating some. Several things have led me…

Bird Droppings April 21, 2022Can we find Truth in an untruthful world? For the third or fourth time, I reread a book titled; Every day is a good day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous women by the late Wilma Mankiller. Mankiller was the past Chief of The Cherokee Nation and a Native American Activist, author, lecturer,…

Bird Droppings April 20, 2022Pondering and thinking about the lyrics from an old friend Back in the “normal” days, I stood in line behind a young man in his mid-thirties, and I assumed his wife at a BBQ place at Stone Mountain Park. I know we can argue it is a memorial to the South…