Month: July 2017
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The Principal’s weirdest day
New construction and bad decisions brought an early end to the shop and special ed teachers’ school year. With a week to go, both already knew their contracts would not be renewed according to their now retired principal. “The shop teacher had a good first year. The students liked him. They related well, but the…
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Bucket list vacation
“Those are the Rockies ahead of us!” my husband exclaimed looking forward to seeing another item on his bucket list. The van hauled us up to the Rocky Mountains on a smoothly paved road, quite unlike the path pioneers took in covered wagons. I never have seen so many broken blocks of granite precariously balanced…
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Coach Mike and girls softball
Having a few years of coaching T-ball behind him, Coach Mike figured his team of girls ages 12 and under understood softball. The league assigned him the youngest of the 43 girls who came to try-outs. Since so many wanting to play, the league formed a third team instead of two. Coach Mike’s team included…
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Playing the Mennonite Game
Vacation plans did not include playing a round of The Mennonite Game of finding a mutual person whom two strangers know. That did not stop my husband from looking for a playing partner. He roused me from the stupor of riding hours through the wheat fields of Kansas to ask, “Do you want to go…