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This could be true “Every true story ends in death.” [Ernest Hemingway] My dad was different. As a kid, I’d been in my friends’ homes. I’d talked to their moms and dads. Their dads wore polo shirts and shorts and baseball caps. They vacationed in places that had boats. They always came back with t-shirts wi...
This could be true [a short story by Keith Manos] I figured Angela would be at our high school reunion because she was one of the popular girls twenty years ago at Gahanna High School. Of course, she would show up. Me? I wasn’t popular. I wasn’t anything. Twenty y...
This could be true [a short story by Keith Manos] This is not a true story, but some parts really happened. Let’s say that I lived on a fifty-acre farm in Kansas, miles and miles away from any neighbors. My best friend was our dog Chestnut, a Labrador who licked ...
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“ . . . can you play me a memory? I’m not really sure how it goes, but it’s sad and it’s sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man’s clothes” [Billy Joel] Regarding Sue, his mindless sister-in-law, Jim decided to confront her later. Of course, when she visited again. W...
Teaching rule #1: Formulate the curricular objective. That’s a fancy academic expression that simply means to create a goal. Every teacher – even the newbies like me – knows that, and every administrator checks for it when he or she does an observation to evaluate a teacher. The objective is what you want to accomplish by the end of a lesson. Call it a single to-do task for the day. Like today in Algebra 2, my objective was to solve one variable linear function, a typical lesson for the beginning of the school year.
Algebra 2, Monday MorningSchool starts way too early. It’s only third period, and already I’m exhausted. Which is my own fault for staying up late last night watching a Planet Earth II episode on Netflix. I can’t believe someone with a camera waits for hours and hours by a pond in the jungle to film five seconds of a frog snapping i...
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