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 Wow! Has it been that long since I've posted? Teaching and coaching is going well, we just started basketball season, and the girls 
are playing in games much better than they are in practice (thank goodness!). Grad school is pushing along as well. My conflict management class has proven extremely 
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As previously mentioned, a certain super-hero received a pogo-stick for his birthday.  This summer, he was sighted at a few places in New Mexico:

on a rock at the end of a canyon (and supposedly pogo-ing down a rockslide)


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Special case #3224: The Case of the Moldy Cheese


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If God is love, and love is getting a 27 year old a pogo stick for his birthday . .  . Does that mean God is a pogo stick?


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Note to self in the future, especially in the middle of the school year:  SUMMER IS GREAT.

Note to Rick Perry:  You won’t hear from me for a while, I’ll be on vacation.  Don’t worry, it’s not a paid vacation.

But boy has it been eventful,

from raging waves


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The dogs have a new fort, although they thought the garden on top was edible . . .

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I never understood why otehr teachers always say field trip days are crazy.

They would only say, "If I tried to tell you, you wouldn't believe me."

Since I have no reputation for tall tales, let me sum up the day in a short story. . .

I woke up like any other day, groggy and decaffinated, so I put on some tea.  .  .

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an attraction of evenings,
    coalesced under an old oak tree

steel strings shaken,               awaken
             and the banjoman sings.

If beauty is not enough,

so remains the gathering.


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auto pilot, ON. . .

auto pilot, ON. . .

i'm tired; responsibilities toss me like waves through the days and time is soaking with sand, slipping on through my hands

I want to tie my waist to a tree to slow me down - to sit down - and soak up the shade of tomatoes and maize in the middle of a yard in somewheretown sand stormy Texas.

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