Larry Kowalski had been a surfer and still enjoyed swimming in the Pacific. But when it wasn’t summer, the days were depressingly shorter, and Larry asked his California Health Insurance agent Matt Lockard if his policy covered Freudian psychiatric care.  As for the demise of his son’s pet turtle, that just wasn’t at the core of his sadness. Larry loved summer. He preferred that halcyon season to last forever, an endless array of longest days spent frolicking in the California surf & sun. Every year was the same. The days grew shorter. He didn’t surf anymore now that he was approaching   read more

So you were wondering what my new mailbox looks like..how you like them guns ? Yeah that's gonna leave a mark don't cha think?   read more

Of the zillions of blog posts I've done over the years, buy far one post stands out as being the most infamous.It's a post from my old blog, but the post in itself wasn't so much the big deal but the fact that it got picked up and linked by a rather popular educational blog and let's just say the shit hit the fan in the endanyway I have a lot of readers here that have never seen it so I thought I'd post it enjoyTeach Your Children Well On any given day, I hear some pretty interesting things as I roam the halls of the middle school where I teach. Some of the things I hear crack me up like   read more

I've always said I need a 28 hour day. That's right 20 hours to get all my shit done I need to do and another 8 for sleep. I just never seem to have enough time in the day to do everything I want. I try to streamline as much stuff as I can, you know multitasking but even then there's never really enough time. I guess if I could figure out how to survive on no sleep I might just check off everything on my to do list every day.One thing that I've been doing for some time now is buying my sporting and concert event tickets online. Most days I don't have time to make phone calls let alone be on hold   read more

Although I often say I’m too jaded to ever go back to teaching elementary kids, there are things that I really miss about it. I guess it’s the innocence of the children, they are so eager to please their teacher and I definitely seem to remember a lot more of those teachable moments.But I think the thing I miss the most is the literature. Reading children’s books out loud to the kids and watching their them come alive when they’ve heard a good story for the first time, the pleading to read it just once more….ahhh yeah I miss it. But deep down I think it’s that I miss the empowerment that children’s   read more

have this kid in my class who’s parents immigrated to the U.S. from Russia, and although the kids have a fairly good grasp on the English language their parents can’t read or write any English at all. Kinda makes corresponding in writing a bit hard when it comes to communicating with the parents.So after several attempts to send them some progress reports on their kid with no response I did a little investigating. Seems that I was able to get out of Mom in broken English that she did indeed receive my last correspondence that I sent to the house, and that her angelic son so graciously translated   read more

Check out these Funny pictures of food art on Clipmarks. Some real clever art work there by Carl Warner. Are you inspired?clipped from www.collthings.co.uk Cool Food ArtFood glorious (and funny) food pictures! Remember getting told off (or still are!) for playing with your food at dinner? These cool pictures of creative food art bring a whole new meaning to playing with your food!   read more

Most Colorful and Amazing Pictures of Birds Check out these absolutely brilliant colorful and beautiful Amazing Pictures of birds, some in flight from Clipmarksclipped from fizzyenergy.comThese is a wonderful collection of avian imagery, simply magnificent… Beautiful birds that looked amazing in flight with that splash of colour! Posted by admin in Environment on Oct 5th, 2009 | 15 responses   read more

Take a loot at the 20 most colorful, beautiful and amazing butterfly pictures from Clipmarks.20 Most Colorful And Amazing Butterfly Picturesclipped from www.ezzal.com 20 Amazing Butterfly Pictures Ever 20191817161514131211 10987654321   read more

Amazing Pictures Of Nature's Fury Can nature's fury, that causes massive mayhem and destruction, ever be beautiful? Take a look at these Amazing Pictures that reflect the power and beauty of natural phenomenonclipped from izismile.comThe power and beauty of natural phenomena (38 pics)Nature is unpredictable and it’s the most powerful force in the world. But even if its force is destructive and scary it can be also incredibly beautiful. Let’s look at an amazing compilation of pictures after the jump.   read more