IF by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and...
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I’ve been doing a lot of substitute teaching here lately for the purpose of having some income. It’s been a real challenge and I have a great deal of respect for teachers, especially the ones that go...
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Half a league onward, all in the valley of death rode the six hundred! I have to admit, I am duly excited about the prospects of teaching my sixth graders about Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem, The Charge...
View ArticleMonsters University, Where’s Waldo and Rain
We got a quarter inch of rain today and praised The Lord for it. This area has been in a drought for about ten years. You can see from the photo how low my father’s front pond is. The water line is...
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