Bird Droppings January 7, 2016 Can we say true heroism and humility are spelled the same? Even though I am one of the worst spellers in this local area, I know heroism and humility are technically spelled differently. I will concede to using words to come up with a perhaps catchy title for my daily…

Bird Droppings January 6, 2016 Caring is a very precious commodity in life And some thoughts from Maxine Greene As I am pondering my early hours today before heading to school an article dealing with charter schools and how they exclude many students. The air temperature is chilly outside and we are under a slight…

Bird Droppings January 5, 2016 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 go…

Bird Droppings January 6, 2016 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 sleep…

Bird Droppings January 3, 2016 Building Sandcastles drip by drip It was nearly fifteen 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 from…

Bird Droppings December 30, 2015 Setting an example is such a simple lesson plan “We taught our children by both example and instruction, but with an emphasis on example, because all learning is a dead language to one who gets it second hand.” Kent Nerburn, The Wisdom of the Native Americans I have over the…

Bird Droppings December 29, 2015 Can teachers use learning as their pallet? I wrote the basics of this article nearly eleven 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 her…

Bird Droppings December 28, 2015 Where is the passion? I was sitting facing a rising sun thankful for a new day yesterday the first sunlight in many mornings. It was ironic as I was sitting on an overturned five gallon plastic bucket next to a small circle of smooth river rocks facing east, listening to…

Bird Droppings December 22, 2015 Understanding the symbols of life I was recently in a discussion about child by four years old can identify hundreds of symbols. McDonalds, Burger King etc. Yet most cannot identify a single bird, tree or flower. This was not a discussion from my house since my own children grew up…

Bird Droppings December 17, 2015 Have YOU been Naughty or Nice I have a friend doing random acts of kindness currently. She committed to an act of kindness every day. I try and live my life that way and I do make mistakes. But each day now she posted her act. At first I was…