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for the win, on a May Day
1. 12 year old rushing in breathless after school to tell me he'd like to come out to his whole seventh grade at our school's Pride day next week. Thinking about when, and wanting to come out to all his teachers beforehand. After he wrote an essay for me and the This I Believe project hinging on being true to himself as bisexual, despite worries ( Read more... ) -
River Time
Writing for my students. Counterpoint to a deliberately vague poem -- teaching to "write about a pebble." (N. Atwell)
River Time
I clamber down the trail, slide over steep boulders
smoothed by summers of feet seeking the water below.
Dust puffs up onto my legs. I sink into dry artichoke steam,
Mountain Mystery silver-green in the Sierra sun.
River ( Read more... ) -
I had a Crush on F
Written recently in memory of SavorySweet's dad, who passed away very recently ( Read more... ) -
Safe Inside
Five houses away from me, three weeks ago, a man was shot and killed by the police, after a car chase with the police ended by a car driving into a house. There were four men in the car. Two were arrested, one escaped and the police spent the next six hours searching for him, and one man was shot on the street, by the police, and died ( Read more... ) -
My writing.
Funny, the big thrill about going to 80 % at work was that I would have more time to write. What's actually happened, unfortunately, is not the freedom I had hoped for. And? I'm recommitting to more regular writing -- and want to share some of it here ( Read more... ) -
Descent into hell & then remembering my intention
So, I wrote to fattest that I was on the descent into eval hell -- which is what comes right after recommendation hell in my ongoing 19 day work week (day 10). I descend this slope 2x/year, thought not always quite this intensely. Work is bad, institutionally and structurally and monetarily speaking ( Read more... ) -
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letter of personal protest for the 12-14 year old set.
A letter I wrote for my students before school today - because ultimately I could not stand to use the sample I wrote two years ago. Used a story I have been telling in one form or another for 20+ years -- many will recognize it. Refrain in an ongoing theme as a fat middle school teacher in a fat-phobic world.
( Dear Eric Goldberg at the age of fifteen, ) -
Looking for a Ride - worked once before, so here's hoping....
J and I are flying to his sister’s wedding reception this weekend.
We need a ride leaving Oakland to SFO on Thursday 9/17 at 6am (Wheeee!), and
returning from SFO to Oakland on Monday 9/21 at 4pm.
Any takers? ☺ -
need
walked out of work at the end of the day simmering with anger... lots of reasons, tipping point being yet another meeting about "that" kid - someone else's child who is a bright charming human, with powerful parents, with powerful learning differences, who also cheats, lies, manipulates, avoids, detaches, deflects, covertly (and not covertly) ( Read more... )