Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal. – Isocrates 436 – 338 BC To my daughter I leave this memory. In grade six my best friend was Lesley. She was the school benchmark for all that was clever. And I never begrudged her that, because she was smart, super smart. The smartest girl in [...]
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Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t. – Mary Schmich Fek me Mary! I don’t like where this [...]
Butt-ball one of my fabulous memories of PE
Posted in bully, growing up, kids, lessons, school on Sep 10th, 2009
Was just reading a funny blog on Obama’s recent controversial speech delivered to all the kidlets of America (well at least to the ones whose mommas and poppas didn’t protest and keep them home in the trailer park that day- but ahem-I digress….) It evoked a memory of my own physical scareducation back in the [...]