Yesterday afternoon, I closed up my classroom for 10 days. Nate the Great, Cam Jansen, Nancy Drew, and the rest of their mystery-solving cohort are back on the bookshelves. Multiplication anchor charts are rolled up and put away until we need them again later this winter, and the December Number Corner calendar has been swapped …
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Un-expecting
If you’d asked me last Thursday morning what the last thing was that I thought would happen after our dog Ziti was spayed, I probably would have said something like, “Well, I certainly won’t be sitting on the couch with Ziti curled up tight next to me in a ball, lactating and displaying all the …
A Traditional Christmas Care Package for Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020
Poetry: Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing by Too DerricotteMy mother was not impressed with her beauty;once a year she put it on like a costume,plaited her black hair, slick as cornsilk, down past her hips,Read More Song In My Head: Spirit of Christmas by Ray Charles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfLmpKTqugM Art: J. Latham’s Christmas Eve Photo credit: pixels.com …
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On Giving and Receiving
The following piece originally appeared on the Living the Legacy blog at fhich.org. I figured I'd share it here as well in the spirit of the season. The saying goes that it’s better to give than receive. You hear it a lot during the holiday season, and it often gets relegated to cliché status. It’s …
A Traditional Christmas Care Package for Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020
Poetry: Carol by Ishion HutchinsonOaks or chestnuts, what here draws brass linen, wakes me, overcast, with the polished sprigs of mygrandmother’s lamp, holding the plumed shade onceRead More Song In My Head: Christmas Waltz …
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