King of the Mild Frontier gallops into my school

Feb 27

Chris Crutcher spent almost two hours yesterday entertaining me, my Creative Writing class, my AP students, and about forty others in the library at my school. Yep. My school.
He’s a kid-magnet. I loved that he was so honest, that he shared his mis-adventures in school, that he disliked reading more than anything. [...]

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Professional Teaching Standards: not an oxymoron

Feb 25

Taking a break from National Boards. Entry 4  was finished a few weeks ago, all twelve types pages of it. Well, almost finished; I still have to photocopy sixteen pages of documentation to support the twelve pages.
On to Entry 1. Last week,  after almost thirty-six hours of dog-paddling in a sea of instructions, I finally [...]

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How sweet it is

Feb 25

Sprinkles Cupcakes. Brings a new meaning to cupcakes.

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Whizz-dumb for eternity

Feb 24

Whizz/Whiz: a person who is quite good at a particular activity, in a certain field, etc.; a person who is unusually intelligent, clever, or successful especially at an early age + DUMB=recent revelations:
1. For two of my National Board portfolios, I have to tape my classes. I have to be in the tape. I have [...]

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Speaking of thanking God. . .

Feb 23

Please  enjoy this video.

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TGFE

Feb 23

TGIF? If I’m going to thank God for Friday, then I’m going to thank Him for every day.
On another note: I wish that people in Anna Nicole Smith’s life had cared as much about her when she was alive as they care now about where the housing for her soul will be buried.  And that’s [...]

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Intermission

Feb 22

 
 Post-Mardi Gras school today, my National Board portfolios are due at the end of March, but God is in His heaven, and I woke up breathing. It’s a great day.
Enjoy this word game while I’m away.

 The Oxford Word Challenge

 
 

Doublets is a game which was invented by Lewis Carroll, who described it in these words: [...]

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Can a lactard macaca be plutoed?

Feb 20

Bet you thought I dumped my thesaurus in the blender. If the blog title seemed like a data Valdez,  your subscription to the American Dialect Society lapsed.
The 2006 Word of the Year (drumroll):
to pluto: to demote or devalue something, as what happened to the former planet when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union [...]

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Card catalog revival

Feb 20

Another fun distraction. (found on Lisa Samson’s blog)

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Naval (not your belly button) Intelligence

Feb 19

 
IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS WE MONITOR

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Shocking children’s literature

Feb 18

I’m supposed to be diligently working on Entry 1 (or 2 or 3… ) for my National Board Certification for Professional Teaching Standards (and don’t you dare utter the word oxymoron unless you are one), but I could not resist entering the latest fray about the use of the word………………..scrotum.

From an article by Julie Bosman [...]

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The fun never ends

Feb 18

Natalie Jost’s, Standards for Life, posted info about a site called Etsy. Warning: an amazingly creative site that can amuse, entertain, and delight for hours and hours and hours………………………………….Stunningly talented people.

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Contrary to popular belief

Feb 17

A visual of how students think teachers grade their papers.  Note to my students: I do not use this method; I do not live in a house with stairs. Yet.

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Emma said “Grammy” tonight. Nothing else matters. Life is good.

Feb 16


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The Urinal Monologues

Feb 15

“Hello. This is your urine speaking.”

The state of New Mexico paid $21 each for talking urinal deodorizer cakes and has put them in men’s rooms in bars and restaurants across the state.
No, I am not kidding. Note: “When a man steps up, the motion-sensitive plastic device says, in a woman’s voice that is flirty, then [...]

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Stories are everywhere. . .ask Inkygirl

Feb 14


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Hi, I’m “Cranial Halts”

Feb 14

From Wordsmith:  Anagram generator.
I’m also China All Star or Chain All Star.  Maybe your name will generate anagrams that won’t make you sound like a menu item or a franchise.  Of course, Cranial Halts could be reflection of my brain cramp moments.

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CAMY TANG: “Sometimes romance needs a kick of wasabi”

Feb 13

 
 
author interview:
camy tang
Asian chick lit writer of
SUSHI FOR ONE?
a Zondervan release September 2007

I want to first thank Camy for allowing me to volunteer her to be my very first author interview. The fact that she so graciously agreed to do this even after critiquing my synopsis was an added bonus.
Camy’s tagline is “Romance with a [...]

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Scripture can save

Feb 12

An elderly woman had just returned to her home from an evening worship service and was startled to find an intruder in her house.
Catching the man in the act of burglarizing her home, she yelled, “Stop! Acts 2:38!” (”Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ [...]

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Why homework doesn’t happen

Feb 11

This video explains it all.

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