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When I use my imagination, and concentrate really hard, I can pretend that the haze from the nocturnal city lights are pale cousins to their dancing counterparts from the north, and that here they lay low. As the wind rustles the branches of the palms in the foreground I pretend that they are still and […]
Read More Nostalgia (found today, written in Hawaii in 1999)By the time I finished my post on Tuesday morning I couldn’t see. Assuming that the computer was too much strain after what my eyes had endured the day before, I lay down to rest my eyes. With time, however, things did not improve. It was nearly time to take the boys to Guy Smiley’s checkup […]
Read More Loosing Sight and Gaining Perspective(I started leaving a comment for Karen, on her Countdown post, but realized I should just write my own post. I’m not doing the whole Harry Potter meme, I’m only responding to the first question.) When I was student teaching I borrowed books 1-3 from my cooperating teacher under her recommendation. It was very important to both […]
Read More Parry HotterHe didn’t particularly stand out in our class, not physically, not intellectually, and not even emotionally — which is pretty telling as his father had passed away shortly before. He was just a very even kid, although a little more somber than most. He had the capability of performing better, but chose to be average. […]
Read More Education InterruptedHis first day in Hawaii, my husband (then fiance) called me and his family to tell us how cold he had been his first night. It was January and his complaints fell on blizzard-frozen ears in Detroit and my only-slightly-more sympathetic ears in Idaho. What of the lightweight blanket he had received for Christmas? It […]
Read More My Role as a Woman
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