rantings & ramblings
My classes helped decorate my classroom: they made the snowflakes and donated the tree, I provided the poinsettias and the lights. I put up a fireplace on the overhead and turned on Pandora’s Classical Christmas station. It made everyone happy 🙂
If we were sitting down to coffee I’d have to tell you I don’t really have time to sit and chat over coffee. But you probably figured that out, since it’s after noon. Continue reading “Saturday Coffee”
“Tin-rannosaurus Rex”
tin foil and sticky tackÂ
Yesterday was the 75th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, an event which brought the United States into World War II. One of the men serving at Pearl on that day was my friend and “adopted grandfather” Chief (ret) Tom Poole, stationed on the North Carolina. He turned 98 earlier this year, and yesterday was honored at Tryon Palace. Continue reading “Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 2016”
I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn’t crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers. – D.H. Lawrence
Today is December 6, the feast day of Saint Nicholas. Krampus came last night, and apparently you were good, for you are still here reading this. Continue reading “A Visit from Saint Nicholas [2016]”
Running In My Head 