1. Kitty’s Retest Kitty stayed after school. She had not done well on Tuesday’s test, and she was taking it again for extra points. When she was finished, she closed her laptop and stood up. We made eye contact. “Can I see how I did?” she asked. These tests get automatically graded. So I opened […]
Yearly Archives: 2024
Your Grandmother’s Spirit
Sat, 13 Jan 2024, 09:01 AM (-06:00)
Evidently he had been pondering the question. Maybe he had glanced at the back wall where our classroom expectations are posted — where they are cautioned to speak as if Nani is in the room. “Mister,” he said, motioning me to come over to their table. “Mister, is your grandmother’s spirit really in the room?” I […]
Windy Day Morning Sun
Fri, 12 Jan 2024, 12:14 PM (-06:00)
That morning, a fierce wind howled. We could hear its moaning thru the walls of the house. Shrub and tree branches whipped dramatically left and right and up and down. A large limb lay on the ground at the base of the Walnut tree. The garbage cans fell over. The sticks and trimmings in the […]
Sawbucks and Sawhorses
Tue, 2 Jan 2024, 06:21 PM (-06:00)
Let’s talk about “sawbucks” again. Steely-eyed mjb observed that they seem to be the same as “sawhorses”. I mean there are sawhorses and there are sawbucks. Go look. I’ll wait. Same thing, right? But no. Check out this article about building a sawbuck out of logs, and take a moment to look at that the guy’s sawbuck. Not a sawhorse. I’m […]
Happy New Year
Mon, 1 Jan 2024, 12:01 PM (-06:00)
And so with the business of 2023 being behind us, a morning sun rises on 2024.