The season is early, but it seems real. The soccer team is gelling, Oh, yes – they are! Trapping the ball, Looking First. Shooting Next. You have time. Completing passes. Blocking shots. Might this group have it all? It is thrilling to realize, the group seems as one. No selfish plays, no ball hoggish days….
Six months ago, when I started blogging, I started a list of potential topics on which to write. This list is kept right on my WordPress account as drafts. Some potential posts, such as this one, have just a title, some are blog posts that I started but have yet to complete, and some were…
Recently, while reading posts offered by members of a reflective blog writing group to which I belong, there were a couple that caught my eye. The authors, two separate people, wrote on the memories that specific plants evoke for them. I understood completely! Plants are powerful! My grandma always had african violets. They seemed to…
I had to be patient today. Firstly, when I walked into my laundry room this morning, I found that two monarch chrysalises had darkened and I could clearly see the butterfly wings through the hard case made by the pupa. I knew we would have two eclose today, meaning I was going to be able…
For years I have waited, watched, and prepared the garden beds for visitors. Carefully, I have examined each leaf for signs they inhabit my garden filled with milkweed for them. Common milkweed was the first, taking years to be established. Then swamp milkweed, followed by rose milkweed planted by students. Each germinating, growing,…
Fall is in the air! Can you feel it? I can. The fall soccer season has started with two games this past week, one against a nearby rival last night, ending in a tie. The afternoon was warm but by 7 p.m., when the varsity team started to play, it was rapidly getting cooler. We…
Do you know what it means to look at something through your mind’s eye? Recently, I came across this term in a book I have been slowly reading on Dyslexia. It was a book I bought out of interest in the subject and kept in my car for reading while I was waiting for soccer…
Over the coming weeks, I will slowly be returning to educationally based posts. After all, information and enrichment are both part of my purpose for writing. The sharing of ideas, knowledge learned from past experiences, current trends and issues in education, and my own return to classes for the fall semester will give me plenty…
A Photograph Licensing exams Nursing Boards A Text GRE exams Certification exams MAP Testing A Tweet Emails Course grades A Driver’s License A post on social media Responses to a post on social media The News Online Newspapers & News Magazines Medical Laboratory Testing What do these all have in common? Immediacy. During some recent…