Both Chicago and West Side Story were on TV tonight. I haven’t seen the stage version of Chicago yet, but I have seen West Side Story live several times. The summer it was at the SCERA I think I saw it three or four times. There are a few other shows that I’ve seen the [...]

There are all kinds of different running shoes. Today I saw these: Vibram Fivefingers. They looked too weird to even consider when I first saw them. But I’ve been looking at them, and the more I think about it, the more I can see myself wearing them and really enjoying them, especially in the summer. [...]

Lloyd Alexander passed away on Friday. His wife had died two weeks earlier. They had been married for 61 years. It makes me smile that they were not parted for long.
Lloyd Alexander was an author, especially of children’s books. I was introduced to him during my children’s literature class at BYU my third year there. [...]

Tuesday was supposed to be a day when nobody bought gas. Because that was going to show the gas station people who was boss. There was a whole email thing being forwarded to everyone. Luckily, none of my friends sent it to me. Mr. Me posted it on his blog if you are interested. You [...]

I live six miles from work. I take one left turn and two right turns on the drive. When I started driving to work four years ago there were ten stop lights along the way. About two years ago they added an eleventh. And this week they put up the twelfth, although it probably won’t [...]

KSL radio features a different Utah teacher every Tuesday morning as their Teacher Feature feature. People submit letters to the station nominating different teachers and then people at the station and the state office of education go through the letters and pick a teacher to honor every week.
This morning they said this on the radio: [...]

There are a lot of flowers that are associated with memories for me. All good ones. I love a lot of flowers specifically for the memory they bring to mind. One favorite flower is the snowball flower bush (Viburnum opulus for those of you who want to know exactly what it is, at least that’s [...]

Today was the movie premier party for my fourth graders. They have been working on stop motion movies for the last two months. They worked in groups of 2-3 to figure out what objects they wanted to use, take all the pictures they needed, and then put the pictures together complete with title credits and [...]

Education classes can be so incredibly frustrating at times. I’ve attended lectures about how not to lecture because it is not an effective means of teaching. I’ve had lessons that weren’t engaging on how to engage students. And one of my favorites, although I’m sure it is not confined to education, I’ve found myself disagreeing [...]

Every now and then I really want a hot dog, and not just any hot dog, but a pressed one from the street vender Dog do Ceu in the Bacacheri neighborhood in Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. Those, as the name might imply, were from heaven.
You might be asking what makes their hot dogs so much better [...]