Welcoming May in The Garden of Eddy
Planting, hoping, trying, failing, living & dying in The Garden of Eddy.
Every type of Christian is a Christian, and it's not Christian to reject a Christian for the way they practice, is it?
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Muskrat Musings
A few months ago, I started seeing teachers posting anecdotes online under the title, “Evaluate This!” in response to the current practice of evaluating teachers, even those who don’t teach in tested subjects, on the standardized (English and Math) test scores of students. Teachers and students are so much more than data points, and test […]
There is one teacher in my life who has played a tremendous role in my education, for she has been my teacher for over 20 years. When I was an undergrad in English Education at Eastern Michigan University, I had the great good fortune to have been scheduled into an English Methods class taught by […]
June 2014 It’s 12:35 on my 3rd day of summer break. I’m at school. I’m interviewing students, listening, trying to find out what kind of experiences they’ve had in my classroom, looking back at twenty years of teaching Adrian Maples. I’ve decided to start writing about it–a memoir–in parts–on a blog. I am so happy […]
A song is born!
I've been a fool, and try as I might to avoid it, I may be again!
I am obsessed with flowers!
for Anthony & Brian “I think of your letters as love letters,which is how I think of songs,in that it is the writing of these thingsthat tend to carry us along.” I’m learning to sing “Soft Shoulder” by Ani DiFranco for my friend, Chris. The quote above comes from the lyric. I like to learn […]
"Any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.” ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
Dave and I enjoy our first hike of the new year at Ives Road Fen.
May 1, 2024
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