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Archive for the ‘Overheard’ Category
In Summary of Summer; Looking to the Fall
Posted in Overheard, Personal on 23 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘Til Death (or Taxes) Do Us Part …
Posted in Overheard, Philosophy and Theology on 26 June 2009 | 2 Comments »
At the mid-point of my ride this morning I stopped for a cup of coffee at River’s End Cafe (in Seal Beach). I sat down next to an older man and a middle-aged woman who were deep in conversation. Lacking both books and newspaper, I couldn’t help but overhearing bits of their conversation.
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Valid point
Posted in Overheard on 12 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Ms. Card, I decided that I don’t want to be a teacher when I grow up because, well, they have to hold it for so long.”
– a fifth grader with a particularly small bladder
A Quote
Posted in Overheard on 3 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Steak is my favorite kind of chicken.”
– The 6-Year Old
It’s Anybody’s Guess
Posted in Overheard, Personal on 31 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From this morning:
I hand N—– a purple chewable vitamin tablet to accompany his oatmeal.
N: “What animal is it?”
C: “I don’t know. What does it look like?”
N: “No, you’re supposed to guess…”
C: “Oh. A monkey?”
N: “No.”
C: “Is it a dinosaur?”
N: “No. Well, maybe. It’s in the cat family.”
C: “Tiger?”
N: “No.”
C: “A lion?”
N: “Yep!”
Who am I to [...]
California’s Crisis: The ungovernable state
Posted in Business, Overheard, Politics on 1 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An excellent (and short) article from this week’s Economist regarding California’s budget issues.
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To Hell with Niceness
Posted in Overheard, Philosophy and Theology, Teaching on 28 February 2009 | 1 Comment »
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.
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Why aren’t more of us like H.L.?
Posted in Literary, Overheard on 7 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it.”
[Harper Lee, from a 2006 letter to [...]
Why are you laughing so hard, Ms. Card?
Posted in Overheard, Teaching on 4 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, during our grammar lesson, one of my students mis-read/pronounced “tidy” as “titty.” Self-control only reaches so deep, and it was several moments before I could teach with a straight face.
I told them I was laughing because “language is funny.”
Which, it is.
A Difficult Rhetorical Question:
Posted in Overheard on 28 November 2008 | 5 Comments »
“If I stopped being myself, would you still love me?”
