Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
My hip was hurting last night and even after a couple of Ibuprofen I still slept poorly. The pain is the result of a 15 second classroom melodrama: One moment I was asking Kenny to wash his hands. The next he was thrashing around on the floor screaming, “No! No! [...]
Right index fingernail ripped to the quick. Blood. Pain. Bad words. [...]
Life in a second language learner’s classroom:  We are having a fund raiser spaghetti dinner at the school tonight. The teachers are to be the wait-staff. One of my students asked, “What’s wait-staff?” I said, “You know, cooks, waiters, dishwashers — the folks that do the work so all [...]
Yesterday as my second Parent-Teacher Conference was coming to an end, I rose from my chair and froze, half in and half out, with a catch in my back.  I could not finish standing. I could not sit. The pain was like a needle in my lower spine. I put [...]