Whatever Flips Your Waffle - Mark Domeier
I traveled to Owatonna earlier this month to call a basketball game for Owatonna Live. I arrived partway through the first half of the junior varsity game, only to hear people buzzing about what had happened about a minute into the game. Apparently, the varsity coach of the visiting team had been...
In a recent conversation, someone was telling me that some schools don’t work with young children on how to tie their shoes anymore. So many kids apparently wear shoes that don’t necessitate tying that it’s not looked at as worth the time.
When I think of kindergarten, learning to tie shoes...
I’m guessing as you read this, it might be a bit chilly outside. At this time of year, we sometimes get negative numbers for a high temperature. And then we start to ask ourselves, “Why do I live here?”
Some people head south for the winter. The older I get and the thinner my skin gets, the...
Artificial intelligence has invaded our lives. It’s likely that it impacts you in some way, whether you’re aware of it or not. The algorithms that send you ads and help make suggestions when you’re on Amazon or even when I’m typing these columns has some form of predictive text and artificial...
November is finished, and my 8th graders have been furiously working on their stories for National Novel Writing Month, our yearly foray into writing long stories. My students had goals of writing 10,000 words, while my goal was 30,000. They’ve done some incredible work this month, and I’ll spend...
A year or so ago, I wrote about discovering the magic of audiobooks. Sometimes I would find new books I hadn’t yet read, while other times, I would listen to a book I had already read, but experience it in a whole new way through listening to a different voice read it to me.
I still listen...
To Kill a Mockingbird is the greatest novel of all time. The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars film. Spider-Man and Captain America are the coolest comic book characters.
Those are all my opinions. You might think differently. You may have a different book that you can read again...
When I say the name Chuck Woolery, what do you think of? Perhaps it’s his career as a game show host. He’s probably most known as the host of Love Connection, where people would try to get a date without seeing the people on the other side of the wall. Woolery was also the very first host of...
Have you ever smiled and said hello to a complete stranger? What was the reaction? Were they startled? Did they return the hello, even if it was a bewildered response?
At times, you may have thought it was someone you knew when you did that. Or maybe you weren’t sure, so you wanted to hedge...
When I did my student teaching, my supervising teacher told me there were two days you hoped would fall on weekends: April Fool’s Day and the day after Halloween.
Oh, how right she was, at least on the latter.
This year, we are in school November 1. It’s a Friday. It’s also the end...