On Being Simply True

I carried my cell phone in the back pocket of my jeans today--like the kids--in order to live tweet through my last day of work. Until I rea...

In the midst of giving a final, grading yesterday's finals, continuing to pack up my room and writing letters of recommendation for stud...

It was my intention to count down the last five days of work, a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 celebration of all the good things that came along with tea...

This post is long overdue. I meant to write about this in June, but there was, you know, pneumonia... and C. Diff... and hives... but th...

After a long, arduous day of working-while-sick, after scolding my Honors kids for not studying the handout I'd given them yesterday...

This will be—What do they call them?—an "occasional series" recording some of the not-so-mundane aspects of my day job. When I...

There is a video online of teachers reading letters they've written to themselves as first year teachers . I found their words t...