by Christine | Apr 1, 2011 | Welcome Column
1. Two months ago I wrote about three wonderful teachers who impacted my life. Last month I wrote about one teacher who was just plain mean and dreadful. A lot of you shared stories of your favorite teachers and your not so favorite teachers. Thank you. I did get a...
by Christine | Aug 5, 2011 | Welcome Column
1.) It’s August, schools are opening, Sheila, now tenured (God Bless her) will begin another school year as an excellent special education teacher, her husband, b.judd will begin his 24th year as a substitute teacher, their grandsons are getting older, Rhiannon and...
by Christine | Jan 3, 2014 | Welcome Column
1.A fond farewell to 2013 and can anyone tell me what that was all about? It seems that the years keep on appearing with great promise, and then like a passing freight train they seem to depart off into the distance leaving nothing but a trace of smoke and a bevy of...
by Christine | Nov 5, 2010 | Welcome Column
1957-2010: What a loooonnnnggg strange trip its been……… 1) Snowflakes: I still don’t understand this. There is a universal “belief” that no two snowflakes are alike. Billions upon billions of “freshly fallen silent shrouds of snow” (thank you Paul Simon) flakes drift...
by Christine | Jun 7, 2013 | Welcome Column
80-year-old Japanese man scales Mt. Everest. (What a show off!) Item I: My father, born in Texas and one of millions who struggled through the Depression years used the carrot and stick motivator technique with me by saying, “If you get tired of walking walk a bit...
