After An Educator's Journey
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Once upon a time, I taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. Now I’m retired and working on new ventures.
Category: Braindroppings
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I heard a new term yesterday and I really wanted to write about that, but Adrien spoke to me and in that split-second, the word was wiped from my brain. As I get older, the act of immediately forgetting something I’d like to remember annoys me. It also terrifies me for obvious reasons. Trying to…
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There is a particular beauty in writing when it resonates. I connected with this piece in today’s New York Times by Margaret Renkl, and through Ms. Renkl’s writing, I’m reminded of the power of observation of the natural world, of quietly reflecting on the order of the universe. I’m reminded that the natural world has…
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. ALAN WATTS Alan Watts Quotes. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com. Retrieved January 5, 2024, from BrainyQuote.com Web site: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/alan_watts_386511 This quotation has a particular resonating truth for me. No longer able to make sense of the changes in our world politics,…
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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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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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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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