2010: 2010

July 27, 2010

Reading (Link) of the Day:The SystemBeing ProductiveDaily Rituals.Make a pot of coffee.Pour coffee into cup.Set cup of coffee down.Refill cup with coffee.Write for 8 hours interrupted with various clients and preparation for clients.Make another pot of coffee.Read email & drink coffee.Gloss RSS feeds.Read...

June 30 2010

Word of the Day:Coffee.My pot of coffee was postponed by my son dumping Biology Day all over the kitchen floor when he tipped the shelf over.The coffee grinder dial refused to stay put. I need a new coffee grinder.Making coffee made me late to work.I won a coffee-flavored contest.It smelled like coffee when we...

June 7 2010

Teaching Link of the Day:Biology DayAdventure of the Day:First day of Summer School with my One-Room Schoolhouse:1 kindergarten girl, 2 boys, 2 3rd grade girls, 2 4th grade boys, 1 5th grade boy, 1 6th grade girl, 1 8th grade girl.Thoughts of the Day:Some supplies are better off distributed at the time of the...

Teaching Link of the DayScripps Spelling BeeAs we have no television, we went to a family member's house for the Spelling Bee. My daughter--an avid reader reading at 2x her age level--is a mediocre...

Thought of the DayThe following is an article I wrote for the personal finance blog right about the time I stopped writing for them. I never submitted it and it's never been published. I've...

Teaching Link of the Day: National Summer Learning Association (formerly, National Center for Summer Learning, of John Hopkins University)From the site:A recent Johns Hopkins study found that...

Thought of the DayCourtesy of XKCD(Hover over pic for original title text)My definition?: A nerd is a well-rounded geek. A geek is someone versed in a particular field or set of related fields.Hence,...

May 28 2010

Thought of the DayThe interwebs are buzzing about Facebook: May 31 is Quit Facebook Day, apparently.A few thoughts:Being On Facebook:If you spend more time on Facebook than you do in front of the TV, kudos. You have more of a social life than the couch-potato generation. I like to see social web-works grow and...

Show of the Day:*Caution Spoilers*It's over, and it was a bit odd, kinda hokey, but I loved the montages. They made me tear up. If anyone wants a synopsis of LOST, they could watch this one...

Thought of the Day:"The Pledge of Allegiance, a debate in small bites."Pledge History: Written by the NEA's* chairman for the 400-ennial celebration of Columbus Day 1892. I say: For the nation's...

Garden of the Day:More on rescuing your plants from pests: ReNestWe had four freezing days in two weeks after we put our garden in.We used bed sheets (vegetable bed--ha ha!) and luminaries to...

May 10 2010

When really bad things happen to my friendspeople who are close to meI feel really, really terrible.Everyone is a piece of meand their pain is my painand it's weird.People are used to living isolatedwith their pain and their fearswhile the world spins around them.I am not that way.I am not much without my friends.I...

May 9 2010

I want to share all the things about todayBut I don't have pictures so you will just have to imagine it all with me:I hosted Mother's Day here at my house,with 10 people I re-arranged the tables and chairs in my house to fit everyonewith the kids they sorted the rest of the toys I found hiding behind the bedwith...

Thought of the Day:For a restful night's sleep, don't break this ruleA) never accept a client you had a hard time working with before because they complained about your rates, back when your...

According to all my lovable Facebook friends, this is the weekend for bubbles. An extraordinary number of friends have chosen to update about bubbles this week, friends that don't know each...

Teaching Link of the Day: Crossword Puzzle Genera...

April 8 2010

Thursday Bus5 amDrive to airport in Nashville after eating a muffin and drinking a coffee and an orange juice.Missed the car return lane (who can read at that time of morning? Use pictures! Graphics! Logos!)Got it the second time aroundInfernal beeping at the gate: 45 minutes of 2-toned beeps even the security...

Word of the Day:Irony of Fate - The concept that the Gods, Fates, etc. are toying with humans for amusement by using irony.I promise, I was amused.I know you don't know the story, but I'm writing...

Garden of the Day:Worms!Weeded these out of my garden, using a shovel:And found so many of these! The best year of worms in my garden--ever.Game of the Day:Kid Quote of the Day:My five-year-old,...

Yay gardening!New label:Garden of the Day (to include my myriad adventures in gardening)How to Start a Garden in Western ColoradoChoosing land and plantsFirst, you call 811 and have them mark...

Reading of the Day:Here's the challenge--my daughter reads at a soaring level above her maturity. Harry Potter, not yet. More like Hardy Boys. So...into the past where books for children were...

Teaching Link of the Day:Sketching Lego CreationsI wrote about a Lego(R) and sketching exercise that we did last year, and this year the lego construction projects have become exponentially...

Teaching Link of the Day:ASVAB testingStory problems...chess timers... finding out I score off the charts... I love my job...Food of the Day:Fondue, with the homemade bread from the other night.Show...

Craft of the DayToday I did nothing but create...a MONSTERAlso, new tag because I make lots of different kinds of things. I'm surprised it took till now to get this t...

Teaching Link of the DayCircle the command words when you read instructionsA bit down in the instruction is a powerpoint presentation after a discussion of CUBE the question.Sometimes it's interesting...

Teaching Link of the DayBlock Letters and Shading Geometry in 3 dimensionsIt all started with Star Wars...Letters have geometry. They are square and triangular and circular, and drawing block...

Teaching Link of the Day:Reading without spacesUsing this as an aid for a student reluctant to read out loud with confidence--or at all in some cases--allows for the curiosity of the experience...

Random Fact of the Day:some things are just too fun not to share. (also, click the picture to go to OnlineSchools.com for more fun and interesting Fact posters)Via: Online Scho...

Teaching Link of the Day:Using workbooks in a classroom.One One One OnePick one, any one. Using a workbook to teach and assess your students is not effective. You become distant from the...

Show of the Day:I studied this screenplay in my last college class--an independent study that I wrote and implemented. These brothers are fantastic writers, and then they make movies out of...

Adventure of the DayI was here, but so was a foot of 3-month-old snow plus another fresh six-to-eight inches.You can't hear anything when you're here in the winter:the train goes by and with...

Teaching Link of the Day:Following Directions Dot to DotWell, almost. That's ALMOST it. Instead of translating 1 to the answer of the problem for 1, each problem has a true or false. Here, try...

Teaching Link of the Day:I got a piece of plexiglass. It's dry-erasable.Being clear, infinitely versatile. The film on the back re-adheres without sticking to the word cards I had cut to go...

Teaching Link of the Day:Rhyming is so not importantTruly, rhyming is an advanced skill of pattern recognition and comprehension. We've inundated ourselves in a world of rhymes to teach with--Mother...

Food of the Day:Games of the DayAlbums of the Day:Adventure of the Day:I bet you can't guess what we did tod...

Teaching Link of the Day:Take Apart Party, or Teaching kids to tinkerThe kids had a "talking" book with pen that teaches word preliminary reading techniques like rhyming, initial sounds, etc....

Adventure of the Day:Warmth! Sweatshirt and jeans, Mardi Gras is two days away, and I can finally clean my front porch and back yard. I have tomato plants untended from the early freeze/snow...

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