Today is the second last day of classes for the school year here.  Grades are mostly in for many classes.  The seniors graduated this past Saturday and are no longer in the building ( Read more... )

Over 200 girls kidnapped from their school.  Kidnapped by Islamists who intend to sell the girls into slavery ( Read more... )

After twelve years of nothing but substitute teaching work I left Ontario for Kansas (my home state) because I was offered a full-contract job here ( Read more... )

The treatment is done. I'm home and I feel... much the same. This is the expected outcome. If the treatment will be effective I will feel it in a few days.
In the short term increased pain is not an uncommon experience.

Tomorrow I go in to have an epidural treatment done for my back issues.  I'll miss all of Monday but I should be able to return to work on Tuesday ( Read more... )

February I had a massive traumatic back spasm.  I hit the floor screaming and could not move for a while.  Since then I have had excruciating pain in my hip, leg, knee and calf.  Mostly on the left side ( Read more... )

  That is the question I have become accustomed to hearing immediately after I tell a person I teach English as a Second Language.  It is a question that strikes me as quasi-racist.  Quasi because I suspect the questioner does not understand the implications of what he or she has just asked.  I found it somewhat ironic to be asked that exact ( Read more... )

One of the major components of my debt load is my student loan. Well, loans, in fact. The loan is divided into four parts. I treat it as one amount most of the time. Each month I have over paid it slightly. Rounding up the amount less than a dollar to the next dollar that dollar amount to the next higest multiple of 5. So if I owed $402.23 ( Read more... )

I have applied to a summer school teaching position in the York Region School District. Existing York teachers get preference in the hiring process. Still... I can hope, right?

I have not owned a TV in about 4 years.  When my first son was able to stand and push buttons he started turning the TV in our living room on every time he went in there.  He would then watch whatever was on.  He would throw a huge fit when my wife or I turned the TV off.  We were training him to only watch TV when we allowed him to but shortly ( Read more... )