The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: books

  • Why is seeking peace so difficult?

    Bird Droppings June 10, 2025Why is seeking peace so difficult? Around the world, armies are moving as I write. There are missiles being aimed and tanks rolling. War is a profit-driven machine for industry, and sadly, it is more about money than ideology. I have always been against war and have always felt that there…

  • Can we even compare ethics and politics?

    Bird Droppings May 21, 2025Can we even compare ethics and politics? I picked up a copy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about eight years ago. The front page had various articles, but one caught my attention. Having been a student in psychology at Mercer University in Macon, I was required to go on a field trip…

  • Bird Droppings April 16, 2025Can we even compare ethics and politics? I picked up a copy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this morning about five years ago. The front page had various articles, but one caught my attention. Having been a student in psychology at Mercer University in Macon, I was required to go on a…

  • Trying to find a way back to normal, or is it abnormal? Is your child a hippy?

    Bird Droppings April 11, 2025 Trying to find a way back to normal, or is it abnormal? Is your child a hippy? “Your son or daughter may be flashing warning signals that he or she will soon drop out of society and join the “hippie” movement. If you know what to look for, you may be…

  • My friend Trooper, I am pondering, remembering, and digesting the stories.

    Bird Droppings April 7, 2025My friend Trooper, I am pondering, remembering, and digesting the stories. Fifty-two years ago, I was a student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, having moved south only a few months prior from Pennsylvania. Macon was new to me, and I must admit I was somewhat naive at the time. In…

  • I’m not too fond of shopping, but I like Kroger

    Bird Droppings March 26, 2025I’m not too fond of shopping, but I like Kroger About eleven years ago, I spent nearly a week using ice packs as heat extractors for my computer until I got the fan fixed. Granted, I have been on my third computer since then. It was interesting. Two similar thoughts occurred…

  • Ethics and Politics: I think they are antonyms

    Bird Droppings March 25, 2025Ethics and Politics: I think they are antonyms Many things are happening in our world that are often the result of a politician’s actions, whether we voted for them or not. Industry is being remade, wars are being fought, jobs are appearing and disappearing, and health care reform is possibly off…

  • The inability of surmounting learning difficulties

    Bird Droppings March 9, 2025The inability of surmounting learning difficulties I will borrow from old droppings and share them again when the message is important to me. In one of my last IEP meetings, my student was reaffirmed, yes, you do have a deficit in math according to state testing.  However, choosing not to do…

  • I am Reading and listening to a philosopher.

    Bird Droppings January 28, 2025I am Reading and listening to a philosopher. There was a beautiful sky this morning as I walked out; the weather was wreaking havoc with my sinuses: cold, hot, colder, and humid. On the one hand, I can count the number of mornings with frost this year. The sky, while partially…

  • For some, creating and writing in a digital world is difficult.

    Bird Droppings January 22, 2025For some, creating and writing in a digital world is difficult. “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 book Brave New World was…