I am finding FB easier to get to...and more people to talk to. Its easy because you can just type a line or two ...
I always check in here to see who has written..lately, I haven't come up with much to talk about...school, construction and packing boxes to get ready to move...plus have Kindergarten...its been so distracting...and pretty boring. I am so ready for this year to be over...one more week with kids and then I think we are getting one paid day for moving. Then I have a few days off..by myself before my kids are coming to visit...I think its going to be Nana Camp for a lot of the summer!
I am helping our art teacher put together a huge puzzle mural that the kids at Park Street have done. We went and found old pictures of Park Street School to put onto that mural. It is really fun to read about old Springfield.
Lori, keep trying facebook...you can directly to us all! When are you leaving for your trip???

Hi Lori, well you may be right. I use FB everyday and I know that Kathi and Karen do also. I don't know that they mean to use that instead but I don't know what's going to happen here. I still feel both programs have their benefits. The only place I see you and Debbie is here. I haven't seen Richard anywhere in months traveling, incommunicado I don't know. There aren't more people talking in FB from the class Karen V is there ever so often but its rare. Several are signed up as members but they don't use it any more than they did/do here.

Yes, that must be hard to go into a class you don't really know to teach something you're not really prepared for!

Have you all been hanging out more on Facebook? I get the feeling that that's where all the action is, and I'm still resisting it for some reason. Don't know what's wrong with me...

Well it takes some getting used to and some getting over. I still have times of insecurity, sometimes it depends on what I'm talking about and how much prep time I've taken. The idea of substitute teaching is horrifying as one is never really prepared.

Yes, I don't know why that fear of public speaking is so intense, but it definitely is. You're probably okay with it, though, aren't you?--if you were a teacher for all those years and had to stand up and talk in front of a class.

Congratulations Lori on getting through the reading intact! I'm glad you felt you did well. Public speaking is the #1 fear of adults and so add to that reading your own work and YIKES.

Sounds like your get-together is going to work out. Have fun!

Well, I got through the poetry reading last night--without turning red, losing my voice, or fainting! Actually, it went okay. I liked hearing the other poets read their work. Some were really good. One of them was an Arabic woman who was born in Syria and grew up in Lebanon. She asked me if I want to join a group she's in with Moslem and Jewish women who get together to talk and listen to each other. I might try it. Sounds interesting to me, and I think acceptance and tolerance are really important. It was a nice sort of "New Age" kind of evening, but I think it went on a little too long. People can't really listen to poetry for more than an hour, and this went on for about 3 hours. In the first part, 9 of us poets read, then there was an intermission, and then one poet read while an electric cello player played in the background. The music was beautiful, but that should have been saved for a different evening. Oh well...