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Once upon a time, I taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. Now I’m retired and working on new ventures.
Author: amybisson
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To me, retirement in the modern era, is a compromise between the career you leave behind and the pursuit of meaningfulness to fill one’s days. And that, for me, is what makes Anna Mary “Grandma” Moses, an incredible story. Born in 1860, Grandma Moses didn’t begin to paint until 1938, when she reached the age…
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We are vaccinated and boosted. We wear our masks nearly every place we go. And yet, this week I tested positive for COVID. Because of vulnerabilities of people in our circle, I mask except when outdoors or in the little-used stairwell of our building. We don’t eat indoors at restaurants and we haven’t even had…
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Wishing you peace, joy, and happiness Adrien & Amy
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As I start to transition from social media to other outlets for writing, I’ll be cross-posting entries here on WordPress. This is the entry from my AFTER blog written on 20 December 2022. Changes are coming – slowly. ~AEB Our holiday decor in our down-sized condo is, well…. downsized. At first when we moved from…
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As I start to transition from social media to other outlets for writing, I’ll be cross-posting entries here on WordPress. This is the entry from my AFTER blog written on 7 November 2022. Changes are coming – slowly. ~AEB There is no denying that the stakes are high in the mid-term election. We’ve voted (thank…
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I am admittedly a Blowellian – a blow-in to my home in Lowell, MA. Right there, that may discount any opinions I hold because I’m not “from here”. One would never guess that from my clearly mid-western dialect; I only recently stopped pronouncing a-u-n-t as /ant/. I am, however, able to vote and with an…
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There has been a great deal of attention and buzz about former VP and current Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s rambling response to the education question posed at the end of last night’s debate. For the uninitiated, a record player is what we old-farts used for streaming music in our youth. Beyond the Friday morning commentary…
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Do you remember your first day of school as a child? I recently came across some photographs my mother took on our first day of school in Huron, Ohio. In one, a line-up of neighborhood children are waiting for the bus. Bus Zero – Bunky’s bus. How I can even recall those details so many…
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This was a story featured in the online edition of the New York Times this morning. And it has really driven home for me how insane and “normalized” mass shootings have become, as if that wasn’t totally obvious already. Apparently, along with this week’s advice for potty-training a child, we now need expert advice in…
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WBUR’s Max Larkin’s piece on the way Massachusetts has changed counting children living in poverty, How Massachusetts Lost Count of Its Poor Students, was published yesterday. While Massachusetts educators are paying attention, this is a topic that deserves much broader discussion as the unintended consequences are substantial. In 2015, the Commonwealth began recalculating the number…
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