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Taking Off and Touching Down: August 2012
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Taking Off and Touching Down. Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Plane Rides, Dad-Crushes and Nausea (I'm Home). Kathryn can attest to my dad-crushes. Call me cliched or naive or a sucker, I don't care, but any time (ok, every time) I see an adoring dad with a little kid, I go a little weak. Taken deeper, this says something about a) family roles, b) gender roles, and c) my relationship with my own father, but let's keep it light for now. The birds are singing through the citrus trees outside, and the clouds ar...
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Taking Off and Touching Down: March 2012
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Taking Off and Touching Down. Monday, March 26, 2012. Feelings and Fevers: In the Classroom. Spring is here, and so is spring fever. I just want to be outside, and so do my students. He asked me. I sighed. "You know you guys are one of my favorite classes," I told him, "But sometimes you are so loud. He looked at me with serious sparkling eyes, "Yes I know, but I don't know what we can do about it." Sigh. "I think you guys can be better. I'm just having a bad day," I told him. Today we talked about feeli...
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Taking Off and Touching Down: June 2012
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Taking Off and Touching Down. Saturday, June 30, 2012. I am doing this all in the wrong order. I should be telling you about blue blue seas and the brine of sweat and olives; about the ride we hitched with an old man, his grandson, and many water bottles; about the trance chanting. That was Greece, and I will tell you about it soon. For now, Italy. This was a terrible idea. You can see that now, can't you? On the plus side, I now have many creepy, religious, and geometrical photos to show you. Buy a fan ...
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Taking Off and Touching Down: throwing stones
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Taking Off and Touching Down. Wednesday, October 24, 2012. I spent quiet week with family in Pretty Marsh, Maine. No internet, just walks through the woods, books in front of the fire, and mornings by the shore, throwing rocks with Charlie. Jessica, will you please put the camera down so we can throw some rocks already? We say as rocks sink into shallow waters. The light makes lace of the water, smooth goldenrod. Seaweed and crusty barnacles illuminated. Sitting by the shore with this little guy, one of ...
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Taking Off and Touching Down: November 2012
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Taking Off and Touching Down. Wednesday, November 7, 2012. Election, Afterglow, Love. Was elected. Elizabeth Warren is still on the senate. I know this is a good thing because my brilliant liberal friends rejoiced when it happened, but in all honesty I know little about her. PBS and Planned Parenthood are safe from Mitt's slimy paws. Vaginas everywhere breathe satisfied sighs of relief. From Barak Obama's facebook page. In California, we had ballot measures I cared about (and understood! Big corporations...
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Taking Off and Touching Down: Home is Looking for Water
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Taking Off and Touching Down. Thursday, October 25, 2012. Home is Looking for Water. I have been sitting on this piece for awhile. Perhaps it's not perfect, or finished, but here it is in its present form.]. You know what I have dreams about? I kind of need a house. And some of these lives, the kind that require houses, inspire a whole other kind of dream: the nightmare. Is this a tired theme? Mary Oliver posed the question and I want so badly to tell her "No! Breathing aside, the conundrum is that while...
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Taking Off and Touching Down: September 2012
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Taking Off and Touching Down. Friday, September 28, 2012. Using Youtube in the ESL Classroom: Karaoke and more. Youtube. What would I do without you? Where would I get my cute-things-doing-cute-things. Where would I get to hear news segments in autotune. And where else, pray-tell, can I watch 36 seconds of a baby eating a watermelon from the inside. Youtube is a cool tool in the ESL classroom. Here's how I used it. Watching Short Student-Selected Youtube Video. Here are a few examples:. These contain min...
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Taking Off and Touching Down: April 2012
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Taking Off and Touching Down. Friday, April 27, 2012. Teaching: Ranting, Raving, Cute Pictures, and a Video guaranteed to make you smile. Shouldn't they be grateful I am showing them a movie? I went up to one of my kids, putting a hand on his shoulder: "A. This is the only time I am going to ask you to do nothing. The whole class. Can't you do that? So, I saw him in the hallway and he called out to me: "She's crazy! Meaning the girl in the class with me. The girl who could hear him. Oh I was so grateful.
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Taking Off and Touching Down: Using Youtube in the ESL Classroom: Karaoke and more
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Taking Off and Touching Down. Friday, September 28, 2012. Using Youtube in the ESL Classroom: Karaoke and more. Youtube. What would I do without you? Where would I get my cute-things-doing-cute-things. Where would I get to hear news segments in autotune. And where else, pray-tell, can I watch 36 seconds of a baby eating a watermelon from the inside. Youtube is a cool tool in the ESL classroom. Here's how I used it. Watching Short Student-Selected Youtube Video. Here are a few examples:. These contain min...
