I recently saw one of those oval stickers advertising a tourist destination. Are you familiar with them? It had the initials KW in a lime green oval. Guess what southern destination I am promoting? (Hint: it is 90 miles north of Cuba.) I love those stickers! Many elementary schools around here advertise their school pride [...]
Archive for July, 2009
28 Jul
Non-socialist health plan
I realize that you may be shocked by # 4, but considering that the f*** word is part of the vernacular these days, I found the sentiment of this poster refreshing and “right on.” Sorry to offend anyone, but I had to share this.
#5 Stop smoking
#6 Stop texting while driving. (It’s called intextication.)
23 Jul
Balloon Launchings
Back in the early days of my teaching career, I taught at an elementary school in Howard County, MD. At that time, the school was “rural” and now it is “suburban”. Anyway, I am going to ramble on this post~~ so beware.
In the late 70’s we had a school wide balloon launch with the name and [...]
21 Jul
School Dress Codes- Good Luck with that!
If you can read this…Thank A Teacher! A local county school system would like to put a new dress code into effect for teachers. However, it is getting ridiculous and this columnist is poking fun at the Henrico County Public School Admin. It’s a hard job, but someone has to do it. If you like [...]
17 Jul
Crocs Inc could be on last legs~~~~~
“Once-trendy shoemaker no longer instep”
“The company used money from its public stock offering to diversify and acquire new businesses, such as Jibbitz, which makes charms designed to fit Croc’s ventilating holes~~~~~~~~”
Just commenting and pondering~~~~ the “real” Croc’s were $30.00 each. Flip-Flops are usually much cheaper unless they have been embellished and have a company name [...]
15 Jul
Forget me?
While loggin into my summer school e-mail account I noticed a funny box. It said Forget Me? There is a box to click Yes or No. And a little mii character. I also received notice that my account will expire in 10 days. Yes, summer school will be over in less than 10 days and [...]
13 Jul
Let it all Hang Out
I have to give credit where credit is due: CBS Sunday Morning presented a segment yesterday (July 12) on various grass roots organizations that have sprung up in order to promote outdoor clothes drying. I heartily approve!
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5153411n&tag=contentMain;contentBody
Thanks to the Lyman Orton of The Vermont Country Store, outdoor clothes drying has a thriving local family business [...]
12 Jul
If You Can’t Stand the Heat……
Get out of the Kitchen!
I love this phrase and “I Gave At The Office”
Both sentiments describe my current outlook on being an educator. In the public school world, it is often true that expecations for students and teachers are completely overly- ambitious. (Wouldn’t it be nice if….???) 12 months of standards, goals and expectations are [...]
9 Jul
National news tidbits- CNN July 9, 2009
From CNN~~~~~ Thursday July 9, 2009 (You will need to Google this most likely.)
Severed-head piñatas decorate library (ElPaso, TX)
(Art is not decoration..it is supposed to evoke emotion or awareness.)
Man dies after falling into vat of chocolate (New Jersey)
(What a way to go~~~~~~~)
8 Jul
Zeitgeist
I love this German word meaning: the spirit of time- general trend of thought. A local free newspaper uses this term to head a weekly column rating events in our city and state.
In this regard I will make several carefully chosen comments following my rule of thumb.. “If you don’t have anything nice to say…don’t [...]
