Teacher Rant on Test Scores

I have begun actually talking about some of the stupid things that people believe about education. Here is the first video.

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My Raven

When my students write, I write. Their assignment was to write in the style of Poe… so here’s my effort! (Yes, it’s about my students… No, it’s never quite this bad )!!! Once upon a school day weary, while I taught so sad and teary, Thinking o’er the good and sound, fine lesson plan on…

Dias de los Muertos

When Death Appeared “Shot, mommy! Shot!” My two year old came dancing over, bubbling with excitement. Day after day my husband would don plastic gloves, and begin the chemistry that was preparing hormones to make my womb more fetus friendly; while Lily would ‘Help.’ He would carefully draw the concoction up into the…

Queensryche OR Queensryche??? I am weighing in! (Finally)

I decided that I wanted to weigh in about Queensryche before the courts did… Of course I waited twenty-five years. Of course the band had broken up before I actually got to see them in concert. So first I had to decide which Queensryche I would see in concert – the band without Geoff Tate,…

Enter The Moderates

Watch this… Intriguing, right? It’s enough to want to hear the music… (Then I had to buy it from iTunes <hate iTunes> – a saga happened, but I was finally able to listen, then listen, then listen, then ponder. And since I bought it on iTunes, I had to listen and type out the lyrics…

Concerts

Dennis Rudolph – my concert buddy – when I lost Dennis, I kinda lost music. When I got Dennis back, I didn’t get music back, that took much longer. Lately I’ve been remembering all those concerts. Dennis – do you remember discovering The Alarm standing three feet away from them when they opened for U2?…

Whitesnake Rant (actually lyric rant, but still…)

I want to have a heavy metal lyric writing creative writing workshop. I’m volunteering my time, seriously. Lyrics are kinda important, so just think about it. The idea came to me because of Whitesnake… I have not gone to a lot of heavy metal concerts. Whitesnake is opening for Geoff Tate’s version of Queensryche (long…

Heavy Metal first blog :D

Recently I re-discovered music. “How did you lose it?” you ask. I‘m not so sure. Eighteen years ago I was going to the gym every day and Operation Mindcrime, the Queensryche mind-blowing concept album was my companion. I suppose getting married and having a baby, raising her, teaching, becoming ill and more…

lilysmother (aka: Kathy)

Thoughts and ponderings on life as it continues…