Monthly Archives: January 2012

Teaching Ambassador Fellowship Applications Open!

Are you a teacher looking for an unparalleled opportunity to learn about education policy?  Are you interested in bringing the voice of the teacher to local, state and federal avenues and to also bring relevant information back to your local school and school district?  I was fortunate to participate in the U.S. Department of Education’s [...]

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Surprise Friend Visits Are the Best Visits

You know when you get those completely unexpected phone calls in the middle of your typical run-of-the-mill week days?  The kind of days that almost shamefully blend into each other in a whirl of what becomes the greater part of a lifetime? (Okay, maybe that’s a little dramatic). Still, how great to get such a [...]

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Some Snow in the Southern Adirondacks

So we finally got a bit of snowfall today in the Boston area… with about 3-4 inches of accumulation over the course of the day.  Really lovely to see the white stuff fall so fully and fat-ly through the morning into mid afternoon.  And while it was good to make it out to the Saturday [...]

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Bring on the Spring… in January?

How nice to get out for an afternoon walk with only a light vest– in the middle of January.  Mid 50s on a mid-January Saturday afternoon?  You have to be kidding me. Refreshing to get a full dosage of fresh air though as we walked through many of the quiet paths in the Forest Hills [...]

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Thanksgiving, Christmas and into 2012

I’m not sure what it was, but the last few months have gone by in a condensed blur.  A really wonderful blur, but a bit too fast for me.  Maybe it’s most telling that up until a few days ago, I had yet to download pictures from Thanksgiving that I’ve been meaning to send out [...]

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