If you’ve been following my blog this week, you know that I’ve been writing about gifts I’ve received from students, everything from Starbucks cards and candle holders to homemade pencil sharpeners and bacon. (If you haven’t been following along, feel free to start here and catch up. It won’t take long.) Today’s post is theContinue reading “The Greatest Gifts, Part 3”
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The Greatest Gifts, Part 2
(Need to catch up? Click here for part 1 and here for the part that came before part 1.) In 2010, a student who we’ll call Darry made me a pencil sharpener. Back when I was in school (which was slightly after the days of uphill-both-ways-in-the-snow, but still well before the internet) there were heavyContinue reading “The Greatest Gifts, Part 2”
The Greatest Gifts, Part 1
Yesterday, I shared on my blog some of the gifts I received from students during my teaching career. But I saved the best three for last. A Girl After My Own Heart, er… Stomach Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “The greatest gift is a portion of yourself.” Either that or BACON. The year after I gotContinue reading “The Greatest Gifts, Part 1”
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