Hope and Heart-pricks

We're closing another chapter in my family story--another son is graduating from high school. Excitement and anticipation, and yet those awful pricks to the heart.…

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Life Lessons from the First Grade

Robert Fulghum said, "All I need to know, I learned in kindergarten." Now that I've been teaching in the first grade for 3 months, I…

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Happy Birthday, Cha-Cha-Cha!

Happy Birthday to You! Cha-Cha-Cha!      Happy Birthday to You! Cha-Cha-Cha!      Happy Birthday, dear ______________,       Happy Birthday to You! CHA-CHA-CHA!…

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Marker Mania

Today in first grade, I made the unusual exception to let the children color with markers. It seemed a simple enough indulgence: just decorate the…

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Got life under control?

  I've got to get my life under control! Clean my closets. Organize my bills. Exercise daily. Plan my vacations. Read those books. Finish writing…

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