The booty quandary is finally answered
Pirate's Booty is a puffed corn and rice snack that my children and students eat often. One of my favorite questions to ask these kids while eating this snack is…
Pirate's Booty is a puffed corn and rice snack that my children and students eat often. One of my favorite questions to ask these kids while eating this snack is…
Every month I report the progress of my yearly goals in order to monitor progress (or the lack thereof) and hold myself accountable. The following are the results from…
My family and I were recently on vacation in San Francisco. During our trip, we attended lectures in the Muir Woods – a forest of redwood trees – and Alcatraz…
A few weeks ago, while visiting friends on Whidbey Island on the west coast, Charlie went fishing in the ocean for the first time. After fishing for about an hour…
I played golf yesterday morning with an 83-year-old guy named Gus before our school district's convocation. I'd never met him before, but I caught up to him on the second…
Today, I begin my 25th year of teaching. Summer has come to a close, which isn't easy. As much as I love my job, I admittedly enjoy the long, relatively…
A few years ago, I was working with formerly incarcerated men who now work in public schools, connected and supporting teenagers in hopes of helping them avoid the same mistakes…
More than a decade ago, a reader accused me of being materialistic after I wrote about my lack of a favorite number, specifically criticizing me for saying that when it…
While on vacation in San Fransisco, I taught Charlie how to play setback. Also known as pitch or high-low-jack. Not surprisingly, he took to the game as quickly as he…
Kansas resident Lee Wilson planted 80 acres of sunflowers as a 50th-anniversary gift for his wife. A total of 1.2 million sunflowers. He did all of this without his wife's…