Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues. Niceness presents itself as benevolence, but is often merely an evasion of hard decisions that the realities of human nature require.
A good article for those of any profession, but especially teachers.
R
Archive for February, 2009
To Hell with Niceness
Posted in Overheard, Philosophy and Theology, Teaching on 28 February 2009 | 1 Comment »
Gentlemen, don’t sell yourselves so cheaply…
Posted in Uncategorized on 20 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I believe the trouble began when I asked Michael to have my wedding ring cleaned and substituted my college ring for a wedding band….
This afternoon, I drove over to my husband’s work to give him his debit card, which he’d forgotten at home and then decided to window shop. I looked into a beauty supply [...]
Life
Posted in Poetry on 15 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, Becky wrote a thought-provoking little poem and I was inspired to take up my pen as well. Believe it or not, I began writing this in a romantic vein…
LIFE
Comfort stripped,
the ewe stands shorn and the wool
born is washed and bundled
into soft heaps of curly possibility;
not white.
Then, as if shears were not [...]
Wedesday, 9:16pm
Posted in Fashion, Literary, Personal, Philosophy and Theology, Teaching on 11 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some mornings, when I am busy answering questions and listening to stories in the classroom, I wonder why anyone in the entire world would choose a different career. Some evenings, when I get home, after six to seven hours of teaching, an hour of planning meetings, a meeting with unhappy parents … and I still [...]
Not that I can compete …
Posted in Uncategorized on 9 February 2009 | 2 Comments »
with CSD’s amazing post, but I passed all the English CSETs … and am pretty much a happy camper.
R
Baby, it’s cold outside…
Posted in Personal on 9 February 2009 | 1 Comment »
The onset of snowfall here in Hesperia has finally prompted me to draft that Long Awaited Post: “Hell Purgatory Week.”
In theatre, the week before a play opens is called Hell Week, a self-explanatory period of technical and dress rehearsals, when everyone goes without sleep for approximately seven days so that the show will be ready [...]
“I am the sun; you are the moon… that’s a lie!”
Posted in Literary, Politics on 4 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A bit from the 1/21 Colbert Report (an interview with Elizabeth Alexander, author of the Inauguration poem). Hilarious discussion of the difference between a metaphor and a lie.
R
Summa!
Posted in Literary, Philosophy and Theology, Teaching on 3 February 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been organizing/leading an honors reading group for a couple seventh and eighth graders this year. We spend an hour a week discussing books (Aeneid, Consolation of Philosophy, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight so far). It’s been quite good up ’til know, so I decided to experiment a little; this [...]
Testing the Test
Posted in Literary, Teaching on 2 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s tempting to say I missed only the bad questions — and there were plenty of bad questions. Not just the grammar/usage ones, either; especially bad was the question that asked whether Book III, Lines 122-34 of Paradise Lost (beginning with “They trespass, authors to themselves in all,” as God discusses the incipient fall of [...]
