Box Tops, Please.

In the last few posts, I’ve been talking about my friend, Joe, who has a teaching situation in which he has to supply his classroom in order to teach his students in the way he feels is most effective.  Schools can always do more and do better with more finances.  General Mills has a program [...]

Moody Monday.

Monday can be the exciting start of a new week, or a bummer because the weekend was great and over too fast.  It can start slow until your first cup of coffee or you can hit the ground running.  Thus, my Moody Mondays.  I’m going to display a photograph that I’ve taken and you can [...]

First Day of School.

           First Grade. 2004.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Second Grade. 2005.

Third Grade. 2006.         

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
          Fourth Grade. 2007.

 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                         Fifth Grade. 2008.         

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sixth Grade. 2009.

 
All photographs and writing property of LoneStarLifer. 2009.

Don’t Blink.

I turned on the evening news
Saw a old man being interviewed
Turning a hundred and two today
Asked him what’s the secret to life
He looked up from his old pipe
Laughed and said “All I can say is”

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Don’t blink
Just like that you’re six years old and you take a nap and you
Wake up and you’re twenty-five
and your high [...]