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”
Author Archives: Carie Juettner
The Thought That Counts
Some say that the gift of teaching is the chance to touch lives, to inspire young minds, to see creativity grow right before your eyes. That stuff is all very good, but I also liked the actual gifts. I don’t mean to sound greedy, but teaching is a hard job with few tangible perks,Continue reading “The Thought That Counts”
Review: Ready Player One
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline My rating: 4 of 5 stars Ready Player One entertained me from start button to game over. Ernest Cline’s novel is set thirty years in the future. Like many of the futuristic stories these days, Cline’s version of our world in 2044 is distinctly negative. Poverty, crime, famine– theContinue reading “Review: Ready Player One”
Carie Juettner 