2005

One of the things that I have been nostalgic for is the Florida I remember from years past - "Old" Florida.  Old Florida had character, personality and charisma.  Old Florida was not pasturized, homogonized and filled with clone restaurants, carbon copy malls with twinned stor...

A chapter is done....but the book is barely begun.  Chickie has graduated from high school! She filed in and sat formally with 474 classmates... At the appointed time she filed up to the stage to receive her diploma.  The formality was slipping a little - is that a smile on her face? An...

I was on my way home this afternoon when my cell phone rang.  It was Sis - wanting to meet me at home.  And she was going to stop at my favorite GYRO place on the way home to bring dinner.  I agreed to meet her and hung up. SO - was she trying to…

Chickie is graduating Friday.  Today was her last school day.  Young Stud and Star are flying in just for her graduation on Thursday afternoon.  In the midst of all this excitement....I still managed to find time to get my feelings hurt. About a month ago Sis offered a graduation p...

No...That didn't really happen.  The dance was lovely.  The students surprised me by just exactly HOW well behaved they were.  The boys were such handsome STUDS and the girls were beautiful PRINCESSES.  They loved our skit....and actually even sang along with the TEMPTATI...

I thought I was getting over my cold.  But this morning about 1 a.m. I was grabbed by an evil headache demon that began squeezing and squeezing and squeezing....and it hurt.  No amount of aspirin made it better.  I got only sporadic bouts of sleep between 1 and 6 a.m., when I usual...

There is another benefit to my students that I haven't actually addressed here.  Some of my longer term readers may have noticed though - even if not directly.  You see, I now have so many STUDENT stories that I haven't really had any time for DADDY stories.  Today, I plan to rever...

It's only been a couple of  few days since I last wrote,  but it feels like just about a century.  There is so much going on that each hour seems like a year. We seem to have mostly gotten over the sex ed conversations.  Now we are on to bigger and better things - like th...

I have a short attention span.  I am easily bored.  That's why teaching middle school kids is the perfect job for me.  Never mind daily variety - I have minute by minute variety - sometimes out of the SAME student! I was running a bit slow this morning in first block.  The tru...

When I moved into this house every wall in the place was beige except for the spare bedroom which the previous owners used as a home office.  THAT room they painted some sort of a weak version of a hunter green.  It's pretty awful.  However - it IS a color, which is more than any&h...