My hard drive is full. The hard drive that is my brain that is. I wish the brain was the same as a computer where you could just add new memory as needed. If that was possible I would have long ago upped my memory capacity exponentially. Alas, absent that avenue I am stuck with [...]
Author: Ms. C
Normal or Nuts?
I was going through an old stack of magazines and on the cover of the Reader's Digest, June 2007 edition, I saw this: Normal or Nuts? Test Yourself Hmmmm...something is wrong with this premise. I need to work it through...there is a test...the test will tell you if you are normal or nuts. But, if [...]
What a teacher makes…
I am a fan of spoken poetry. I don't mean poetry written in a book that is then read aloud. I mean poetry that is created to be spoken. Well, spoken is really an understatement - perform is a better term. I was introduced to spoken poetry through Def Poetry (a show on many moons [...]
Act your age!
The great Satchel Paige once posed the question, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?" When I was younger I didn't understand the potency of this question. In the new forty I not only understand it - I have a response - 25. If I did not know how [...]
No chocolate balls…
In my disaster preparedness class my students are tasked with creating a public service announcement (PSA) that promotes individual and household preparedness. The PSA project is designed to get them thinking about what it takes to sell a message. So far, the folks in my field have not been wildly successful in "selling" citizen preparedness [...]
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I have seen many things in my years on the planet. I have lived - I think - a fairly interesting life and have been exposed to many different ideas and cultures. I have seen things and heard things that have stretched my understanding of the human experience - and I have learned a lot [...]
P90X – what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!
Satan lives...and he lives in the form of Tony Horton and his P90X workout series. My brother gave me the P90X set when I visited him in California at the end of July in support of my Best Body Ever goal. I let the DVDs sit for quite awhile and then I watched one here [...]
THE NEW FORTY 