I just finished reading an excellent teacher book, What You Know by Heart, by Katie Wood Ray. I've been reading a lot lately about how ...

I was reading a book with my seventh graders in which the word "hoeing" appeared. As in, the women were hoeing in the garden. I n...

I was reading an old Reader's Digest last night, and saw an interview with Uma Thurman. I've never seen any of her movies and hardl...

Recently a student loaned me two books by Stephenie Meyer , Twilight and New Moon . Yes, they are teenage vampire books, but I thoroughly ...

Recently, and I can't remember where, I read about a teacher who had a rodent in her classroom but nothing could be done about it becaus...

It was more traumatic than expected, of course. But I think I'm all switched over now.

This morning on our way to church we picked up a lady we knew and gave her a ride. She said she had almost not gone to church this morning...

Dr. Bacchus has some fascinating words about Scrooge .

I'm sitting in my classroom. It's Saturday morning and ALL my grading is done! ALL my lesson planning is done for the week to come...

Anybody who's been living as an expat for a while has plenty of foreign language mishap stories. Lots of them are related to interpreti...

Again, courtesy of Blogs of Note at blogger.com , I found a whole new world. I almost didn't click on it because Antarctica was spelled...

I had to work today (half day), and we're going to have our turkey dinner tomorrow. Nevertheless, I thought today about thankfulness. O...

On an email list I get for missionary kids (MKs), someone posted the trailer for a new movie entitled "BRATS: Our Journey Home." ...

For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Resume. MySpace is Public Space When it Comes to Job Search. What You Say Online Could Haunt You. Thi...

Even as I type those words, "I hate teaching," I know they aren't true. I really don't hate it, not every day anyway. Bu...

This is a fun article about languages getting all mixed up. My favorite quote: "...the young are linguistic magpies, borrowing from a...

Transparency International releases an annual report on the levels of corruption in the countries of the world. This year's report jus...

Tomorrow, after quite a long break for the 1st and 2nd of November (big holidays here in Tecwil and in many other countries too), it's b...

My eighth graders are doing a short story genre study right now, and as well as reading a bunch of them, we're all writing one. Yes, we...

On the first of every month, lots of the DP blogs participate in a theme day. Today's topic is "something that will disappear soon...