The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Writing

Taking and making the most of each moment and learning about moleskin: I think we need to find moleskin in education, along with switchbacks.

Bird Droppings October 20, 2025 Taking and making the most of each moment and learning about moleskin: I think we need to find moleskin in education, along with switchbacks. In years past, before my son got married and took his dog Timber with him, I sometimes missed waking up to him barking because he needed…

October 20, 2025
Should we be kissing frogs on a chilly, wet morning granted it could be a poison arrow dart frog and regardless it is still hard.

Bird Droppings October 18, 2025Should we be kissing frogs on a chilly, wet morning granted it could be a poison arrow dart frog and regardless it is still hard. It was on the chilly side and wet here in northeast Georgia, with nighttime temperatures hanging in the low sixties. However, a rumor of a nice…

October 18, 2025
Who would have thought of a buffalo snort in the dark?

Bird Droppings October 16, 2025Who would have thought of a buffalo snort in the dark? “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to…

October 16, 2025
For some, creating and writing in a digital world is difficult.

Bird Droppings October 13, 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…

October 13, 2025
Teaching today is tying a knot with only one hand.

Bird Droppings October 8, 2025Teaching today is tying a knot with only one hand. It was a Saturday morning a few years back, and no one else was up but me. I was about to go out and wander in the darkness for a bit, and remembered the cast on my leg. I did stay…

October 8, 2025
Perhaps I had a vision walking in the moonlight.

Bird Droppings October 6, 2025Perhaps I had a vision walking in the moonlight. Today should have been the harvest moon, but the clouds covered it up. As I walked out in the morning, I noticed that it was not cold today. I kept thinking of a morning when a little more than a third of…

October 6, 2025
In a world of data, can we still use intuition, or should I say listening to our gut?

Bird Droppings October 2, 2025 In a world of data, can we still use intuition, or should I say listening to our gut? About two months back, on a long weekend, I spent the better part of it either sitting on or walking on the beach at Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Whenever my wife and…

October 2, 2025
Glistening of wisdom on a gossamer strand

Bird Droppings September 29, 2025 Glistening of wisdom on a gossamer strand Many years ago, I was sitting alongside a fence in a field far away from houses and people, and I watched a spider spin a web. We see webs all around, and I read there are thousands of spiders per acre in any…

September 29, 2025
A confession of sorts. Doing what you love is not work, even if you are tired at the end of the day.

Bird Droppings September 28, 2025 A confession of sorts. Doing what you love is not work, even if you are tired at the end of the day. “To love what you do and feel it matters, how could anything be more fun?” Katharine Graham I learn something daily as I wander the internet and read…

September 28, 2025
Trying to understand giving thanks, war, and Teaching

Bird Droppings September 27, 2025Trying to understand giving thanks, war, and Teaching I seldom have a difficult time sleeping. I crashed last night after a long day of cleaning up after my grandkids and a long week getting stitches out and closure on my surgery, and trying to keep up with my wife. My wife…

September 27, 2025