End o’ semester blues….

It is (almost! one more week!) the end of fall semester. The specter of spring semester looms just at the edge of my peripheral vision. I will not panic. I am trying to be encouraging to my students and to me. We can do it! We can make it! [...]

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Now that’s the Christmas spirit

Ugh
Update:

The Salvation Army Greater Houston Area Command will no longer require Social Security numbers as part of the registration process for its Christmas assistance program known as the Angel Tree program.

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Ahhh

you are

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Transgender Day of Remembrance

For the names we know… and the ones we do not know.

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Ain’t nobody writing about this

Ain’t nobody writing about this
… maybe the words don’t come. I’ve been thinking of not much else since I first heard about it on Tuesday. But I don’t have many words. Just a heavy heavy weight … all over. No words.
I grew up about 4 miles from this house. I [...]

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Greeting Card Emergency – Coming Out Day Edition

Watch till the end.

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“There’s nothing ambiguous about that….”

Fortunately I don’t go to movies anyway.

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I. Love. This.

You Need To Comb Your Hair
via Renee

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OMG the president totally just told my kids to stay in school

and to take responsibility for their actions.

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Look – a shiny new school year

Tomorrow is September 1st and I will be back in the classroom.
And this makes me happy.
That is all.

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