Life and Stuff

Everyone, and I do mean everyone has been sick at school for the past two weeks. That does seem to be the way each year; cram a whole lot of people into school buildings at the end of each summer, and watch it turn into a walled-in petri dish. You’d think after teaching for some […]

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Marcel Marceau, le mime, est mort.

Je recommande ce film pour comprendre le mime. Il peut casser vraiment votre coeur.

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For the record, I voted “asterisk.” There’s already too much space junk out there.

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Parent open house at school tonight. Quite a few came out, too. Mostly, they visited to place names to faces, to advocate for their child…the usual stuff. Really nice folks, every one of them.
The number who stayed after to shake my hand and say, “thank you” for very specific things–for assigning the oral history project, […]

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It goes without saying that I am easily entertained, but this badger guy actually has me liking commercials again. For those of you reading from outside of North Carolina, Johnson Lexus in Raleigh runs a series of what we call, “those Badger commercials.”
The backstory is that the dealership called the Martin Agency up in Virginia […]

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