Month: October 2016

Open Letter to the Registered Voter Who Believes in Public Schools

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Note: I have combed through all of my op-eds, posts, rants, and lists and compiled from them what follows as a last posting to help get people to vote next Tuesday for pro-public education candidates. The current General Assembly and governor are very scared of public school teachers and those who support them. Without their … Continue reading Open Letter to the Registered Voter Who Believes in Public Schools

The Greatest Compliment Ever Paid To A Teacher

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When a former student sends you a kind email years after he has left your classroom and graduated, When you receive wedding invitations from former students, When you are sent a Christmas Card from the family of a former student, When a former student walks into your classroom just to watch how you still teach, … Continue reading The Greatest Compliment Ever Paid To A Teacher

Chicken Bones, Stickers, and Super Heroes – Musings With Malcolm

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When a child is born with Down Syndrome, he is almost certain to have hypotonia, or low muscle tone. Remember that your muscles control your vocal chords, your ability to digest, and your capacity to cough out foreign objects from your lungs. For Malcolm, it led to rather severe aspiration. Anything he drank, some would … Continue reading Chicken Bones, Stickers, and Super Heroes – Musings With Malcolm

“If You Grew Up Southern Baptist” – Part of a Somewhat True Story of My Childhood in Greensboro, GA

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“Organ Pipes” Sometimes people do things shunning any consequences just to have a story to tell later in life. This is one of those stories. A certain church in my hometown regaled in its reputation as having the finest organ in the county. The majestic brass pipes that climbed the eastern sanctuary walls perfectly offset … Continue reading “If You Grew Up Southern Baptist” – Part of a Somewhat True Story of My Childhood in Greensboro, GA

A Thank You Letter For My Wife – Happy Anniversary

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As I write this, my wife is still sleeping, getting much needed rest because when Malcolm gets up in the middle of the night (which is frequent) she usually settles him down. So I wanted to jot a few words that could never really approach an accurate measure of the gratitude I have that I … Continue reading A Thank You Letter For My Wife – Happy Anniversary

The Graveyard Vote Has Already Cast Their Ballots

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“Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.” Opening lines of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol “Bob Marley was dead. There is no doubt that his music lives on.” I just quoted that from my head.   Donald Trump’s assertion that the election is rigged (if he loses) has unleashed … Continue reading The Graveyard Vote Has Already Cast Their Ballots

“Give Me My Damn Bowl Back!” And Other Things Said By Jilted People

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“Give us the bowl back.” These five sternly crafted words seem to be the best that our N.C. Commerce Secretary John Skvarla can muster in dealing with PayPal’s decision not to expand in North Carolina in response to HB2. The Charlotte Observer’s Katherine Peralta reported on Oct. 24th in a story entitled “Jilted NC to … Continue reading “Give Me My Damn Bowl Back!” And Other Things Said By Jilted People