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The next of my to-be-abandoned blogs
I said this in December 2011: (1) I have bouts of dread when I realize I will have children at some point soon and I realize that my precarious balancing act will be disrupted once more because I will choose the needs of my family over my career. I hope I will make this choice…
read more »I’m just pining. This week is Spring Break, and I will be out of town for most of the week. However, I intend to return to this and get into the regular flow of things. Lately, it’s just been…one of those months (teachers know what I’m talking about). Hasta luego.
read more »One of the things that is lamentable about this job is how easy it can be to forget your former self. That is to say before you were an adult, before you knew better, you were a trifle naive or prone to emotional extremes or bouts of rebelliousness. It’s been nearly 10 years since I…
read more »I am by most metrics a standard-issue introvert(1). I don’t dislike people, and I find a good conversation to be as fulfilling as the next person. It’s just…I really don’t want to go to your party. I like everyone there one at a time, but I can’t manage all of you at once for more…
read more »My posting has been on hiatus due to the passing of my grandmother last week. It was not unexpected though no less sad. She was born in Galveston but moved to San Antonio at age 3 when her father got a job working at the San Antonio Light printing press. She graduated from Brackenridge High…
read more »At some point very soon, you will be saddled with the burden of becoming a highly effective teacher. I call this a burden because you will need to develop a patina of highly effective behaviors and techniques to which you are very likely not accustomed and this is, straight up, hard. These behaviors do not…
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