Tyler’s art teacher asked to include one of his pieces in the end-of-year district art show at the Foundry Art Centre. “You have a lot of strong work … Congrats! You did excellent work and you deserve the recognition!” Tyler brought the piece in the next morning. Two days earlier, we had also started asking… Continue reading

And why do I need to remind more than half of the students that they have an 8 a.m. class – that isn’t over yet? Ugh … an amazing 5 of 17 students managed to get to class on time today Continue reading

Good news — Madeleine Drury has an internship due to the project in our Strategic Communication class! Missouri KIDS interviewed her for a summer internship, offered her the position, and she accepted. I forwarded the news to Maryville with exactly the amount of restraint you would expect: “Good news Madeleine Drury has an internship due… Continue reading

One more credential for the pile: I passed HubSpot Academy’s Content Marketing Certification exam. The email subject was appropriately enthusiastic: “You did it, Danielle! You passed the Content Marketing Certification!” Continue reading

Recovered Fuller family heirloom correspondence — March 13, 2018, while Jo Zeimet was sorting Peter Zeimet’s estate. Jo described what she jokingly called the “Gold Dust moments”: jars, trash cans, and Tupperware containers full of dirty coins that had to be cleaned, hauled, and cashed in. Some of the better coins were set aside and… Continue reading

On the long list of things I did not know needed clarification – Me “child let you brother in the bathroom” Other child “he is brushing his teeth on the toilet” Me “stand up and let you brother use the restroom” Child “I can’t my pants are down – I am saving time” (all said… Continue reading

Apparently I am taking over another class. The Intro to Visual Communication course at Webster needed a mid-semester handoff. The class had already had a rocky start, and the students were understandably worried about where they were in the course. My first response was practical: “If you can get me the materials you have developed,… Continue reading

Dreamed the boys volunteered me to help bake cookie/cracker things that were 6’ by 3’ and I was having an oven related panic attack- because I basically couldn’t cook a door Continue reading

This weekend has gotten away from me – science fair, wrestling, life. Meanwhile, my Maryville students were getting ready for a guest speaker in class Tuesday morning. Sometimes that really is the entire summary. Continue reading

Recovered family-history correspondence and photograph from January 2018. Dave forwarded the location of Marilyn’s niche: H-7, Row D, Site 45. He added: “They’ll re do it with more info on me when I go !” The recovered email also included a photograph of the niche marker, preserving the family memorial location visually as well as… Continue reading