Why I’m Here.

“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I’d burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Last week, I started to…

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The Paper Dart

The new trend in classroom disruption for the 2019-2020 school year (besides coughing in a classmate’s face and whispering “Coronavirus” under your breath) was the paper dart. While a paper dart may look deceptively like its more innocuous cousin, the paper airplane, don’t be fooled. Paper airplanes are what we…

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What My Kids Are Reading 5/22/2020

Margot: 3 Years  Roxaboxen By Alice McLerran The elementary school I attended as a kid backed up to a small forest preserve. The fields and playground equipment, on which we were allowed to play during recess and lunch, were bordered by what we used to call a hill, but which…

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