Tag: education
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Hurrah a New Blogging Class
I started blogging because the members of the writing circle I joined suggested it, but I didn’t know how to start. The writer’s centre – Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre, was having a class called Blogging 101. I attended, I loved it; it not only answered all my questions it was fantastic. I went home…
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I Hate School Fairs
In every part of my body I ache I’ve eaten all the chocolate cake I walked for miles to sell some books Braving the cold & disparaging looks And now my toils are all but done The profits are for another one “It’s for the kids” is the rallying cry I’ve done my part, so…
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Don’t Volunteer at Your Kids’ School
The Book Fair is coming by hook or by crook. Where students buy novelties instead of a book. We’ll make lots of profit but books & not cash. I’m so overwhelmed I’ve developed a rash! The library’s busy, so the fair has no home! The shelves are on wheels so the school we must roam.…
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Writing Nonsense In My Sleep!
I have recently discovered a new super power. When I am sleepy I can spin words into nonsense. When I was a child and last week my mother could always tell when I was overtired, because I would become chatty; animated, fun and chatty. Alcohol works as well but there’s a family history and well…
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Not A Good Day!
I’ll start with the worst news, starting at the important bit my aunt is alive; my aunt was on holiday in Germany and was hit by a truck. My aunt is the most beautiful woman I have ever met inside and out. She has beautiful long dark hair & dark eyes and is tall and…
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Frustration Eating Me Alive! Part 2
Part 1 here But lately as my two youngest reach the age that it all fell apart for the older two I am starting to feel a frustration at these events. I am afraid it is my internal conviction that my girls are talented but will never get anywhere. It is very disheartening to see…
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Frustration Eating Me Alive! Part 1
A child on the school stage plays a wrong note. Ha, triumph; this will teach you to steal my child’s limelight. A second bad note, oh my God, that poor child! How can I be such a monster? She’s my child’s friend! But I feel that my kids need to be seen. They need their…
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Dyslexic Daughter upDate
In my normal style of dealing with anything I have acquired books about my daughter’s 2 new conditions. I can’t read them yet. When I find a subject stressful I find when I try to read about it the words swim & hurt my head (more than usual). I often read by mentally spiraling the…
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Job Application – Public Speaker
I speak a lot of drivel, but I have been assured it is erudite, interesting drivel. Admittedly I can get caught like a deer in the headlights if I become over stressed; but all it takes is one question and Pow! My intellectual conceit and verbosity come to the fore and before you know it…
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My Website is Trying To Kill Me
The first in my new series Deranged Ramblings and no, smart alec, that is not a better title for my entire blog well it might be but … Shut up! Okay I seem to be the tiniest bit OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), well apparently it is a common co-morbidity with autism. And I generally think…