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Wildly Disparate: December 2011
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Written snapshots of my life. View my complete profile. Enter your email address:. Open a Child's Eyes. Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Joanna, Jordan, and I sat with our hands cupping our roast beef sandwiches to keep them hot while we waited on Pat, who wanted the salad bar. We waited a few minutes for him, then decided to go ahead and start eating when we observed him getting into a conversation with an elderly couple. Between small talk with the kids and looking back to see what Pat was doing, I looked a...
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Wildly Disparate: November 2012
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Written snapshots of my life. View my complete profile. Enter your email address:. Open a Child's Eyes. Thursday, November 1, 2012. There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who carefully select their dogs, and those who take whatever shows up, usually the dog who looks pitiful and neglected. Most of my family members are in the second group. I began looking online at rescued dogs. I knew nothing about the subculture of animal rescuers, the drastic lengths these people go to in order to “re...
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Wildly Disparate: November 2010
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Written snapshots of my life. View my complete profile. Enter your email address:. Open a Child's Eyes. Friday, November 26, 2010. Wishing It Weren't So. Uncharacteristically, I woke in the night, experiencing strange feelings in my legs, but decided to persevere. Went for our annual Turkey Trot, was active most of the day and evening with Thanksgiving and then bowling, and though was aware of muscle discomfort, it didn't get me down. "I've got to do this! Do I try a different one? We’d been walkin...
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Wildly Disparate: August 2010
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Written snapshots of my life. View my complete profile. Enter your email address:. Open a Child's Eyes. Saturday, August 21, 2010. New Job. New Blog. To my dear friends who've honored me by reading this blog, I've started a new blog to chronicle this my first year as a full-time ESL teacher in the Memphis City Schools. It's at www.eslk5.wordpress.com. I hope to post here things that don't relate to this new, almost all-consuming endeavor, but for now all my energy is with ESL. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Wildly Disparate: September 2012
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Written snapshots of my life. View my complete profile. Enter your email address:. Open a Child's Eyes. Thursday, September 27, 2012. They sit with rounded backs and feet planted for stability, careful with every movement whether it's laying down a card, taking a sip of weak coffee, or picking up crumbs off the table. One would think what a peaceful scene this: in the final years of life, sweet old retirees finding friendship and enjoyment in a little healthy competition. Tuesday, September 4, 2012.
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Wildly Disparate: January 2012
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Written snapshots of my life. View my complete profile. Enter your email address:. Open a Child's Eyes. Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Please read my daughter's post.and just TRY to live life as before. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. He was pointing at the sun, the sun shining bright on his eager face. The other kids, then I, too, corrected his theology, but now I regret that. What harm is there in a little five-year old boy thinking Jesus is the sun? Tuesday, January 3, 2012. If I rarely pray, I probably won't ...
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Wildly Disparate: May 2012
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Written snapshots of my life. View my complete profile. Enter your email address:. Open a Child's Eyes. Tuesday, May 29, 2012. He tries again. And again. And again. Daintily, purposefully, but to no avail. Finally, his grandmother has pity and picks up a piece, holding it close to his fist, which is still repeating the fruitless movements. He knows this is different; he can see the rice puff, so instead of bringing the fist up to his mouth, he dives headfirst and "chomps" on his fist, victory at last.
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Wildly Disparate: October 2010
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Written snapshots of my life. View my complete profile. Enter your email address:. Open a Child's Eyes. Tuesday, October 26, 2010. Pushed, Pulled, and Stretched. There is a section in most cookbooks for "Quick breads", batter breads that require no kneading, use baking soda or powder instead of yeast, and typically rely on lots of sugar and oil for flavor. Tasty, yes, but really not bread, not in the true sense. So why do we try so hard to avoid stress, stretching? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Wildly Disparate: February 2012
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Written snapshots of my life. View my complete profile. Enter your email address:. Open a Child's Eyes. Sunday, February 19, 2012. Where's Mr. Knightley? No, man, I don't know, you know? You never know how things are gonna turn out. Like, I don't know. I might like call her up and say, hey, you know, you wanna? I'm glad to report that both of our married daughters were wooed by men who boldly and without timidity set out to win their affections. No, they couldn't have known "how it would turn out", b...
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Wildly Disparate: August 2012
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Written snapshots of my life. View my complete profile. Enter your email address:. Open a Child's Eyes. Thursday, August 30, 2012. Achy and tired, wanting to sleep so much longer, I took pen to paper anyway this morning and began with "Achy, tired, want to sleep. " I then began to muse about why I felt so tired. My diet has been lousy lately, comprised mostly of crunchy, salty, cheesy things - my go-to now instead of sugar. Then I wrote, "And what of today? Complainers aren't necessarily complainers at h...
