Whatever Flips Your Waffle - Mark Domeier
Old Man Winter threatened, but as the scurs and Weather Eye noted, they were idle threats. Does Old Man Winter continue to be idle, or does he make up for lost time? Starting Thursday, sunny with highs in the upper 40’s and lows in the mid-20’s. Sunny on Friday with highs in the low 50’s and lows...
Baseball season is upon us! It’s a glorious time of the year, and hopes are high that our Minnesota Twins can accomplish even more than they did last year. Is it any wonder that the phrase “Hope springs eternal” applies so well in the springtime when baseball begins?
More than any other...
Every year, my students groan at the start of the year when I tell them that, among the four quarterly books they will read for me, one of them must be non-fiction.
“Ugh, boring.” “Non-fiction is dumb.” “Who likes non-fiction?” These are some of the responses I’ve become accustomed to...
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about quadrennial occurrences, things that happen every four years like Leap Years, elections, and the Olympics. As I thought back to the previous Leap Year, I was reminded of the horrors of 2020.
That’s right, as you read this, we have hit the four-year...
New standards were put in place last year for public schools that all middle school students receive music education of some sort. That means every kid gets at least a quarter of music, perhaps in addition to being in band and/or choir.
And the grumbling has ensued.
As we enter Music...
I was watching an episode of the new iteration of Quantum Leap last week. The show is based on the premise that the main character, Ben Song, leaps from one person’s consciousness to another, helping solve problems in that person’s life, and all this takes place back and forth across history...
I start every morning with a bowl of cereal and GoComics.com. There I have selected comic strips old and new that I enjoy, something to give me a few laughs before I embark upon life for that day.
My father-in-law used to say he would get his education when he’d sit down with the Sunday...
Most teachers think I’m nuts. (Okay, a lot of non-teachers think that too.) In the secondary building, we all need to have a supervision period. For many teachers, that means hosting a study hall. However, I put my name in, year after year, to supervise middle school lunch.
I love to people...
I read a really good book recently called Apple in the Middle by Dawn Quigley. It’s a young adult novel about a teenager who has a white father and an Indigenous mother. It came from a recommendation as I searched for some more multicultural books, especially those about the Native American...
The day after the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame voting results were announced, I wore my Joe Mauer Twins jersey to school to represent one of the newly-elected members of that prestigious group. Of course, Joe Mauer only wore a Minnesota Twins jersey in his MLB career, which was a testament...