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I just saw the following story on my RoadRunner homepage and wanted to share it with you. All I could do was shake my head and think that the television industry is soooo desperate for ideas. (Actually I've thought that for the past several years, ever since so-called 'reality' shows came into being) Unfortunately, Fox's newest idea is all too real. It will be about people losing their jobs...

This blog is about teachers. One teacher, to be precise. His name was Mr. T and he was the 4th teacher we had for English in that particular first year of MAVO- school, 1970-1971. The school nobody wanted to attend. For example, I wanted to go to the Atheneum and I did so 2 years later. But this is about English teacher nr. 4. The first one they sent in our direction,...

12/11/10 I guess these memories are really just about Christmas's past for right now. I don't have any energy to decorate or send out cards and do the normal stuff I've always done. I just want to sit and read and enjoy what others are doing. I didn't used to be that way. I always decorated the whole house (even the bathrooms) I loved Christmas. Daddy was a pastor and the weeks of advent...

For the first time in 109 years, 9 months and 5 days, Ruth 1898 is not on this earth. The oldest blogger in the world quietly slipped away. Her mind was crisp and clear to the very end. It’s not often you can say a 109 year old left this earth too soon, it’s true with Ruth. She was sharp, quick-witted and simply charming. Things changed overnight. She awoke with a bad headache. She hurt to the...

Mr. Robert Higerd was my 7th and 8th grade history and geography teacher back in the 60s at East Amwell Township School in Ringoes, NJ. He was good. He must have been in the Army before he started to teach because his favorite saying was, "At ease, disease - there's a fungus among us." I think it was an old military phrase. At least once a week, we'd sit in his classroom...