Paul Richard Hain

Good for you, Holly.  Your teacher story was great!  Keep teaching those young minds the lessons you learned all these years. There is a youthfulness expressed in your remarks that I wish young teachers aspire to be like as "senior" teachers themselves..  I made it 43 years in education, so you have me beat!  Congratulations!

Holly Semiloff (Ciotti)

43 years -- indeed.  I'm in year 42; I didn't start teaching until I was 39.  

Well, I'd love to  stay and chat, but I caught wind of a half-baked senior saying, "Me and my mom went to Bloomingdale's last week" and I muttered, "Dang, I guess I can't retire yet; those precious ignoramouses are putting objective case pronouns in subject position."

  Alas, something to fret about besides drones (but pardon me for droning on and on.)

 Remember sentence diagramming?  

holly

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

I do remember diagramming sentences, Holly.        
I admire your energy and the joy you experience with high school students.    
Age is just a number; you're younger than our president.          
Take heed, 80 is just a bend in the road.

A wise African said: "The opposite of poverty is not wealth, it's dignity."    
You do not diminish your students' dignity. You know what it is to give and to receive.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

   When does this end?      
   "When I feel it in my bones."

Paul Richard Hain

Don;t let them get away with that, Holly.  Good catch!

Janice I like the "bend in the road" analogy.  

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

 Hey teach!      
 You misspelled my name.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

     How does this end?          
     Escalation breeds escalation.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

Are we listening to MTG?        
   "The media edits the news."

Why does no one contradict Trump's assertion that if it came to helping us, he knew NATO would not be there to help us?

   Reminder: NATO's Article 5 is a defensive alliance that has been invoked only once: by the U.S. after 9/11.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

 Finland tops the list for happiness -          
 five years in a row -       
 followed by the other Scandinavian countries.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

The United Farm Workers, largely under the guidance of co-founder Dolores Huerta, has achieved much in the past three decades. The movement survived Cesar Chavez's death and it can survive the truth about his actions and character.
Movements are not built on the back of heroes but on the backs of people united in motion.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

 TSA officers do not deserve the way they are being treated.          
 Shame on Congress;          
      they should work without pay          
      and/or give up their long recess.    
     
 

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

    "What's the issue?"

Marvin Irving Blusteln

Assumption of privilege.

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

       Cherry blossoms in DC.

                  Spring has sprung.

 Cubs and Brewers: Thursday, Opening Day        
 

Jack Edmund Bookwalter

Nancy Doyle (Sudlow)

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

     "We negotiate with bombs." 

Jack Kristof (Kristof)

Janice, I am confident that you are nice old lady, but you need to get a life other than this solilist , marksist dogma  that you are pewing. Jack

Alan A. Alop

Partial translation of prior post of JK:     "marksist"--a third-grader's phonetic attempt at "Marxist".  "Pewing" -- an addled  but close try for "spewing."

Full translation of prior post:    Janice (sic) (should be Janis)  I am confident (he has no idea actually; he is simply trying to sound amicable before he brings down the hammer) that you are nice old lady (something pernicious in the use of "nice old lady"; I don't think he really believes Janis is nice) but you need to get a life ("get a life" seems rather contemptuous, doesn't it?) other than this solilist (no such word Jack but we know what you meant--or do we?) , marksist dogma (the quaint suggestion that the "nice old lady" is a Commie)  that you are pewing (evidently the Commie posts too much for the taste of JK--or maybe the nice old Communist lady is sitting in a chuch pew too often). Jack

Holly Semiloff (Ciotti)

Fab, Alan, fab.

Holly-still-teaching-high-school-English-Ciotti (Semiloff)

Jack Edmund Bookwalter

Ronald I. Zager

Jack (Bookwalter),  Do you think that Jack (Kristof) took Mr. Abrams' English class?

Janis Kliphardt (Emery)

To belabor the point of my age:

I admit to being happy not to be hiking the Appalachian Trail as two of my grandchildren will this summer, but I've been carded to verify my eligibiliy for the senior discount when out with friends and acquaintances. Life can turn on a dime, but my current driver's license is valid 'til 2034. I am known to pew (as be seated for services) in the church my husband serves. Seven grandchildren (ages 15-27) keep me young and on my toes.

Janis

Marvin Irving Blusteln

Interesting comment from Jack(Krist)of.

Jack Edmund Bookwalter