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Broken-hearted but joyful

Vonnie Beard, a man that many of you knew and loved passed away this morning. He was 94 years old yesterday. I loved that man. He was everything a Godly example of patience, wisdom, good humor and joy...

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It's been a while...

So the end of a school year has come and gone. Final Exams, Graduation, camp, 4th of July and the first month of summer has already happened. Summer bears a new set of challenges for me than the school...

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In less than 12 hours...

My summer vacation officially comes to an end. The past two weeks have been kinda crazy... tonsillectomy and recovery, wonderful visit with my in-laws and time with my parents and brothers. :-) Not...

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Christmas, Wait Your Turn.

A disturbing trend has made itself known to me over the past week and a half.... Christmas is waging a hostile take over. It is barely Thanksgiving week. It is the first day of Thanksgiving week. It is...

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extreme couponing??

Anybody extreme coupon? In my personal finance unit I showed the extreme couponing show and one of my classes wants to do it as a class project to donate the goods to a shelter or make military care...

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Of Reflections and Musings

A co-worker mentioned to me today that he was thinking about starting a blog and I told him I used to blog, which led me on a journey to remember my pleonast password. I logged in and started reading...

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GAME DAY

Playing Tomball tonight. They're going to be tough competition. I've tried to mentally prepare my athletes for that all week long. Yesterday we used football shields and pushed them around while they...

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02/25/13 7:29AM

One more day of computer lab for these WWII papers and then the kids are on their own. They are due on FRIDAY. I am estimating that 41% will actually turn a paper in on Friday. I have decided that if I...

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03/01/13 11:52AM

I just got lied to by a student. It was over something really dumb. It disappointed me a lot more than I ever expected it would. Then I started thinking... is that how my parents felt when I did...

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"Not cool, Robert Frost!"

If you haven't seen "Kid President - Pep Talk" Go to YouTube and watch it. Right now. You're already online... so you should do it....

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More than he bargained for...

As teachers, we do not have 401Ks. We have something called 403Bs, which we have to set up. Well as I was in my classroom last week preparing for my day, I got ambushed by a guy who sets up 403Bs for...

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and somehow, it's become April.

The end of this school year is FLYING by. I have a hard time believing soccer is over, there are only eight weeks left of school and only 10 weeks left until Dry Creek Camp. :-D It's been a rough and...

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04/12/13 10:46AM

An office aid just walked into my classroom to drop off a summons to go see the AP for one of my students. She walked in, looked around in confusion for about 40 seconds and then asked "Is your teacher...

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04/27/13 4:08PM

Whoever had the brilliant idea to put a self-dispensing air freshener station at eye-level for the average height woman right next to the sink in the public restroom needs to be publicly chastised or...

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Broken-hearted but joyful

Vonnie Beard, a man that many of you knew and loved passed away this morning. He was 94 years old yesterday. I loved that man. He was everything a Godly example of patience, wisdom, good humor and joy...

View Article


It's been a while...

So the end of a school year has come and gone. Final Exams, Graduation, camp, 4th of July and the first month of summer has already happened. Summer bears a new set of challenges for me than the school...

View Article

In less than 12 hours...

My summer vacation officially comes to an end. The past two weeks have been kinda crazy... tonsillectomy and recovery, wonderful visit with my in-laws and time with my parents and brothers. :-) Not...

View Article


Christmas, Wait Your Turn.

A disturbing trend has made itself known to me over the past week and a half.... Christmas is waging a hostile take over. It is barely Thanksgiving week. It is the first day of Thanksgiving week. It is...

View Article

extreme couponing??

Anybody extreme coupon? In my personal finance unit I showed the extreme couponing show and one of my classes wants to do it as a class project to donate the goods to a shelter or make military care...

View Article

Of Reflections and Musings

A co-worker mentioned to me today that he was thinking about starting a blog and I told him I used to blog, which led me on a journey to remember my pleonast password. I logged in and started reading...

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