2008 June | Trinkets of Thought

What’s it worth?

When I taught fifth grade, I set my classroom up on a mini-economy system with Bame* Bucks. The students earned money for coming to school and doing their classroom ‘job’. It became funny to me because the students viewed the classroom money as if it actually had value.

One student, in particular, wouldn’t even use [...]

I’m still cool, 20 years later, even without these…

For you today, and ONLY today I am offering a trip down memory lane. This will be most appreciated by you if you have the following qualifications:

1.) You’re female.2.) You are around the approximately the age of 30, give or take a few years. 3.) You had the desire to be cool in elementary school.4.) Your sense of [...]

What is this?

Which type of tree does this come from? I would really like to know… I saw this on a walk tonight and thought maybe someone on Xanga woiuld be familiar with it. I had never seen one to my knowledge and thought the ‘flowers??’ were unique and pretty.