Update? Well, we sold our townhome in Asheville, NC. The decision and move weren’t easy. We’d spent 5 months a year (wintertime) for 9 years in one of the trendiest retirement towns in America , a place where we’d built a new life. In the end, we left. Why’d we leave that Southern mountain enclave […]
“Just as trees add rings of growth each year, good teachers wax in their craft right ‘til the end. “ Colleen Kelly Mellor
Teaching Styles The picture? Yep..it’s of the iconic apple that folks always associate with teachers. So, my question to you: As teacher, are you of the red “Delicious” variety or the slightly-tart, green, of the “Granny Smith” family? I choose to think I was the latter, since I often laced my teaching style with […]
I’ve always pretty much gotten notice, for either being one of the tallest women in the room (at 5’9”)….having former “kids” recognize me in super markets or at the Mall, and now, from folks who read my Op-Ed’s in the newspaper. All have brought forth interesting reactions. When some of my former students comment “You […]
But I Did Take a Breather This Summer…. Last year, I kept a punishing schedule, writing each day, from 7:00 AM til 1:00 PM, while I maintained two regular columns–one for the Providence Journal’s Op-Ed pages and another as transplant to our North Carolina mountain town, Asheville, for an alternative newspaper called the Mountain Xpress […]