epiphany #1

I only have 4 more weeks of sixth grade.  

happy?  sad?  fast.

you gotta be sincere

Bailey shared this with me.  So worthwhile.

green eggs and ham

Happy Dr. Seuss Day!   It was March 2, 1904 that Theodore Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.  Today we pay tribute to his 105th birthday.  What a classy guy.  Did you know that the book Green Eggs and Ham was written on a bet that he could not write an entire book only using 50 words?  And now that book is the fourth best-selling English-language children's book of all time.  Pretty hip.  

Do you like green eggs and ham?  Do you like them, Sam-I-am?

I don't know what I don't know

Things I do know today: 

• how to teach astronomy
• how to drive a manual
• how to type using the right fingers
• how to play some chords on the guitar
• how to get ready in 45 minutes
• how to plan lessons
• that I like to talk to my family
• how to write essays
• how to ski
• how to listen
• that I need to clean my room
• that I miss London
• how to spell "definitely"

Things I don't know today: 

• what to do when students cheat
• how to keep my energy up after teaching all day
• when to clean my room
• what to teach in reading (now that we've finished The Phantom Tollbooth) 
• how to play chess
• when I can exercise (and how to get motivated)
• how to be witty
• about the economy, or politics
• how to cure cancer
• how to have a budget without an income
• how to redesign my blog

how was your valentines day? and president's day?  what else do you know?  tomorrow is friday.  84 days until I go to Africa.  

February Love List

• naps
• Institute
• strawberries 
• emails
• my computer
• phone calls
• reading
• nilla wafers with milk
• "family treat night"
• Signs of Hope
• teaching
• fresh snow
• valentines day
• president's day
• listening to James Taylor
• reading blogs
• crafts or projects
• homemade ice cream
• short day at school
• globes and maps
• warm showers
• new magazines
• hearing my students' ideas
• old movies
• Lyvia
• good music
• learning new things
• recess

vote

Hey all-- my dad (my biggest fan) convinced me to submit one of my songs to a music contest.  Please vote at this website.  All you have to do is register your email, and then you can vote for my song once a day!  Spread the word to your family and friends... I need all the votes I can get. Thanks for your support.

happy February

What a lovely month: groundhogs, presidents, and valentines.  In honor of the latter, here is a thought I liked from a book I've never read-- 

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that.  Loving makes love.  Loving makes itself.  We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.  Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay? --from Still Life With Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins