Bird Droppings January 10, 2013 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 9, 2013 Caring is a very precious commodity in teaching   As I am pondering my early hours today before heading to take my wife to work and eventually end up at work myself I read an article dealing with charter schools and how they exclude many students. The air temperature is…

Bird Droppings January 8, 2012 Intuitiveness and being there   I have always thought that teachers need to be two things intuitive and empathetic. Both require an element of compassion and caring. I wonder often how people teach without these capabilities. Over the last week with several other teachers we have been discussing this in…

Bird Droppings January 7, 2012 The fragility of life   Yesterday morning I was awakened for about the tenth time by having to make a bathroom run, our dog, hearing what I thought was rain and a teenager I assume tearing out of our subdivision about two AM. It was around four in the morning…

Bird Droppings January 6, 2012 A chill in the air   For several days the now we have been below freezing in the early mornings which totally silences the crickets and tree frogs who need an ambient temperature in the a bit more warm maybe high fifties low sixties. So for today my orchestra was…

Bird Droppings January 4, 2012 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, 2013 Building Sandcastles drip by drip   Back when I was physical attending classes at Graduate School nearly every day and before switching to Internet classes and WebCT it took some getting used to going to school and then going to school. I was teaching from 7:20 – 3:00 students who…

Bird Droppings January 2, 2012 There may be side roads in life   “We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.” Bern Williams   I was reminded recently as we searched the area several springs ago for flowering plants; the object was the plant had to be flowering at…

Bird Droppings January 1, 2012 So often in finding answers we only create new questions   A new year or just more of the same and it seems like only yesterday I was in 2008. New Year’s eve 2008 I sat in a huge stadium and I was overwhelmed by the noise and often mob…

Bird Droppings December 31, 2012 Sometimes there is Risk   I drove my wife to work and while heading back caught sight of a glorious sunrise beginning. By the time I got to the house I had a few minutes to run in side and get a decent camera and shoot some more photos. What…