...a time to laugh...

Recently one of the clubs at school wrote notes of encouragement on Post-it notes and stuck them to all the lockers.  The day had an overal...

It's getting close to the end of the school year.  As we anticipate that, it's kind of a bittersweet time in my hallway.  You see, ...

We were talking about introductions and conclusions. We had worked through an example together about McDonalds. The attention grabber tha...

At the beginning of the year a student...a senior...who has a locker outside of my classroom asked me for a favor.  She asked if she could ...

We were working on the basics of writing outlines.  I had given students a skeleton of an outline that they had to fill in with the appropr...

Yesterday I tried a new Mexican place nearby.  I enjoyed a nice torta al pastor, along with a side of guacamole & chips.  Guacamole is ...

I was pretending to be a chess coach again this week.   (Yes, again.) What do you think is more intimidating at a Chess Meet? 1.  The h...