Life Lessons

Bird Walks and Eva

When I was an elementary school principal, Madelyn Hunter was one of several educational gurus that I followed.  She had a model for effective teaching that outlined the important parts of a good lesson plan.  I encouraged my staff to use her model.  Some did, some didn’t, but most at least gave a look see …

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Life Lessons

My Left Shoulder

I met with a second surgeon regarding my left shoulder last week.  He’s a sports medicine expert, specializing in shoulders.  He had a new ex-ray taken when I arrived and reviewed an electronic copy of my cat scan and MRI.   We talked a bit as he pulled on my arms and rattled statistics to his …

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Family

Birthday Girls

Elizabeth’s birthday is today.  She was born on March 10, 1977.  David was twenty days short of turning two and Michael followed BZ exactly fifteen months later.  Ruth and I were knocking on 30’s door. The 10th was a Thursday.  Ruth had taught through the prior Friday, beginning her maternity leave that day.  She visited …

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Life Lessons

Coffee’s Ready

When I was a kid my mom and dad had a percolator to make coffee. They put water in the pot, ground coffee in a metal basket, inserted the basket into a metal tube that fit inside the percolator bottom, put the top on the percolator, placed the percolator on the kitchen stove, and fired …

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Ruth

Again

The 27th of the month has had a new meaning for me for the past several months.  This month’s 27th meant Young Jackson James turned two-years and eleven months old.  It also marked the seventeenth month since Ruth’s accident. Last month I completed a blog on the morning of the twenty-seventh.  The final touch was …

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Random Thoughts

Bishop Bob

Canadian Lakes and the Tullymore Country Club are in the middle of Amish country.  I’m not sure what the Amish population is, but there are miles of Amish farms near us.  If you come to visit, you’ll encounter a buggy, or two, no matter where you go.  We had similar buggies near our Lake LeAnn …

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Current Events

I Shall Attend

One of the perks of being elementary principal in Addison was a “shall” provision of my contract.  It said that I “shall” attend State and National conferences each year.  It wasn’t may or might but “shall”.  I had to go. When I landed in Britton, my contract didn’t say “shall”, but I received the ok …

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