The stupidest simile in the whole wide world
Without question, the stupidest simile in the history of similes is drunk as a skunk. It is a simile not based upon meaning but simply upon rhyme. Skunks have absolutely…
The celebratory graduation bedsheet has gone too far
Sometimes I get unnecessarily annoyed, so this could admittedly be one of those occasions. But I don’t think so. Ever since the beginning of June, the Connecticut landscape has exploded…
Blessed innocence
I was reading an extremely abbreviated version of The Little Mermaid to my daughter last night when we came upon this last page. As I pondered what I might say…
Greatest turnaround of all-time
My alarm fired off this morning at 5:00. I opened my eyes and began mentally preparing for work. Lesson plans. Homework assignments. Leveled texts. Motivational strategies. Then I suddenly realized…
What not to wear
I almost always hate when someone tells me what I can and cannot wear. Part of it is the five year old in me, refusing to be told what to…
How much television do you watch?
From a Time magazine piece: “Dr. Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health and his colleagues report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that too much…
Should my students be allowed to make fun of me online?
Time magazine asks: Do students have a First Amendment right to make fun of their principals and teachers on Facebook and other social-media sites? Or can schools discipline them for…
Stop writing me off
Why is everyone so anxious to write me off? I describe my knee pain to a friend, and he tells me that my days of playing basketball are almost over.…
My worst teaching mistake ever
While I am certain that I have made more mistakes than I can possibly remember, one mistake stands above all others in the pantheon of errors: After promising my third…
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