Whatever Flips Your Waffle - Mark Domeier
It seems hard to believe with the onslaught of election information assaulting our senses at all moments that some people may not have made up their minds on the presidential election which is a couple weeks away. Still, there is always a segment of undecideds in any poll you see.
For...
While I wait for my iron to warm up when prepping my school wardrobe, I sometimes spend time looking at our board game shelves. Over the years, we have accumulated quite a few games for people to play, ranging from the young children games such as Candyland up to games meant for an older crowd,...
I did well in school. I enjoyed learning and tried hard on all my assignments and tests. However, in elementary school, there was always one grade that was not very high. That was the handwriting grade.
Remember when we used to get graded on our penmanship? Everything we did in school was...
Legend has it that John Glynn, who taught English in Ellendale for many years before I arrived, ate a turkey sandwich for lunch every single day of his career. I like turkey and I like sandwiches, but that’s really sticking to a theme.
Quite often, I create a sandwich to bring for my lunch...
Now that school is in full swing, I find myself traversing State Highway 30 every day. I once tried to do the math on how many times I’ve driven the ten-mile stretch between Ellendale and New Richland. It seems incalculable, but it’s in the thousands.
You probably have a road like that. If...
I apologize if you now have the theme song for the old Batman TV show rolling through your head. The funny thing is that, even if you’ve never watched one single episode of that show, you know who Batman is and that the show was more corny than the fields in our area.
Batman is ubiquitous....
“B! I! N! G! O! And Bingo was his name-o!” That little ditty from our elementary school days will probably stick with us forever, whether we want it to or not.
If you have never played Bingo in your life, I don’t even know what to say to you. It’s such an ingrained game for so many people....
If you heard a wailing sound from the NRHEG Secondary School on the first day, it was probably directly related to the new cell phone policy that was put in place: Put them away.
The policy differs a bit, depending on if you are in grades 6-8 or 9-12. For the middle school, there are no phones...
I wasn’t going to do it. I really wasn’t. Then I did. And I couldn’t stop.
I’ve been trying to scroll through Facebook without responding to political jabs. I failed in that. I just couldn’t take seeing all the blatant lies about candidates. Those of you who are friends with me on Facebook...
When I’m teaching elements of storytelling, a discussion ensues regarding protagonists and antagonists. Usually, we think of them as the good guys and the bad guys in a story, pro- and anti- if you will. However, the true definition of a protagonist is the main character in a story; an antagonist...