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The beginning of the teaching year is always difficult...

The beginning of the teaching year is always difficult…

The beginning of the teaching year is always difficult, but this year seems especially so and the reasons are not my fault. The anxiety I feel is different, and there is nothing that I can really do about it but go through the motions and hope for the best. It will all work out. It always does. I am taking another couple of weeks off writing fiction. I don’t want to, but I think I need to. Too…

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Never Perfect...

Never Perfect…

Sitting in a car and waiting for my family to come out to target. I had to go to Home Depot, so that gave me a little bit of time not to sit here. Rather looked at my phone I figured it be a good time for me to dictate a blog post. It’s been a rough weekend, rough in the sense that we got a lot to do. But, now I see that I have learned something a little bit more valuable. I signed up to do…

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Notes from the Palisades Parkway and Checkpoint 15

Notes from the Palisades Parkway and Checkpoint 15

Dictated at 4:03pm I didn’t want to stop the podcast that I was listening to. It was a good one concerning passive income. You have to find any way to earn a dollar there are more opportunities — or so I’ve heard — than there has ever been before. I finished my first week of school, and now that everything seems to be settling down I’m starting to see a better big picture. Today, I was able to…

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First Real Blog Post of the School Year

First Real Blog Post of the School Year

My mind is shot right now. It’s been a rough beginning to the year. I have a big block of four classes, and once I am about 75% through it I began feeling like my mind was starting to hurt. I know I need to eat more. That’s one of the most important parts of teaching that no one mentions. You have to have some sort of caloric intake. I’m dictating this while driving. It’s raining. It’s good…

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A Rough First Week I finished my first week of work today. The entire week was spent on preparation. Classrooms needed to be cleaned, furniture moved, and meetings attended.

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Categories and Learning As You Go

Categories and Learning As You Go

This post was dictated on the way to work yesterday. I’m exhausted right now. Maybe I’ll find some more energy later on, but write now I don’t feel like I can write another post. Editing this one will have to do. This year is already turning out to be a little hectic. I’m hoping once it all calms down I will be able to find more time to write and blog. Yesterday, I found myself wondering how I…

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A Finished Preview and Public Words Not Stats

A Finished Preview and Public Words Not Stats

I went back to work today. Already, my morning routine was not prepared and I found myself running late. The beginning of the year is always like that. It’s the end of my summer of a high school English teacher. I am optimistic this year. The summer did me a world of good. My own writing and story practice feels more grounded, like I gained some perspective. That’s a good feeling. Speak to me in…

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The good thing is that hops are perennials. That doesn't change the fact that this was a bad year -- again...

The good thing is that hops are perennials. That doesn’t change the fact that this was a bad year — again…

This was supposed to be the first good year. I started growing hops three years ago. The first year established the root system, the second year was the first good produce, and the third was supposed to be the first peak year with the hops producing oils sufficient to make good hops for beer. I still haven’t brewed any beer with my own hops. It’s bunched up, but that plant was 17′ tall. Cascade.…

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