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Slice of Life Day 16: Infinite Pedantry*

Pedantry is the quality of being too interested in formal rules and small details that are not important. Given the grudge I’ve held against my math teacher for almost forty years, that might describe me…

Slice of Life, Day 12: On Confidence

Who’s the most confident person I know? I’d name them here, but that wouldn’t be nice. Let me explain. I looked at this daily writing prompt, and the way it asks about confidence, it gives the impression that more is better. Confidence is good. I work to build it in students plagued by perfectionism. IContinue reading “Slice of Life, Day 12: On Confidence”

Slice of Life Day 9: Salty

Today was an absolutely gorgeous day. A rare, early-spring holy-cow-this is-what-we’ve-been-waiting-for-all winter-day. A hip-hip-hooray-Daylight-Saving-Time-has-finally-come-and now-we-can-celebrate-the-light day. A play-frisbee-with-the-dogs-in-the-yard kind of day. A find-a-friend-and-go-for-a-long-walk-and-catch-up-session kind of day. A skulk-around-the-corners-of-the-backyard-looking-for-signs-of-spring kind of day. And I, in my infinite wisdom, messed around too much yesterday and forced myself into a Get-Stuff-Done day today. If you see me, andContinue reading “Slice of Life Day 9: Salty”