The new school year is getting close.  I can’t promise that I’ll really follow through with the complete reconstruction of what could have been my 1991 first year blog.  But I’ve added a few posts to it so you can see the alternate site here

So I had this idea a few weeks ago to create another blog where I’d re-create what I would have written had this site been around (and had I had any spare energy) twenty years ago when I was a 1991 Houston corps member. Click Here to read the next installment (and to see what…

Many of these ’20 years ago’ posts will begin with a short intro by the 2011 me, followed by a post by the 1991 me. If these intros distract you, I’ve set up a mirror blog at twentyyearsagotoday.teachforus.org where you can just get the posts from the younger me. I was happy to get the…

  So I was in my storage unit the other day and came across a box of stuff I had saved from my first year of teaching.  I had an idea which I won’t promise that I will pursue to completion, but here’s the idea anyway.  In the box were a lot of mementos —…