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When I was a young adult, I was extremely organized. My husband teases me that I was one of the “smart kids” and I admit I was. I was in the top 20 of my graduating class. Not 20%, 20 people. I could keep track of things and information well. I understood how to useContinue reading “Send them to buy the milk.”

My name is not Dorothy.  I do not have an Auntie Em.  I can not see across vast flat fields from my front porch. I do not even have a pet dog.  However, the other day I did get a lesson in how unsafe it is to prescribe to stereotypes and live in the mindsetContinue reading “Be prepared, they say…”

Tonight, in my routine evening visit to my experimental quarantine garden, I had a few completely normal and average interactions. I left the spider with its masterfully constructed web on the far side of the tomatoes alone so she could catch the flying things. I saw a rarely seen shiny insect just minding his ownContinue reading “A gardening bird gets bugged”

Middle school students, at least in the United States these days, have a unique challenge facing them.  There are different types of Middle school students.  You have the “new to this middle school thing” as transitioning low-level 5th or 6th-grade middle school students. Then you have the right-in-the-center middle school student. These 7th graders probablyContinue reading “Stuck in the Middle”

Welcome.  I am glad you are here!  For those of you that do not know me yet, if I had to label myself I would say I am a professional educator and encourager of creation. A few weeks ago a fellow educator told me I should write a blog. This made me laugh, but IContinue reading “Where to Begin?”