This upcoming Monday is National Slap Your Irritating Coworker Day! Okay, so I don’t really recommend following through on this holiday because it won’t do anything to increase unity among your fellow teachers–but I understand the urge. Perhaps you have a coworker who is… Too detailed. This person has to nitpick every single thing. Too…
When I was little, we would spend a couple weeks every summer in a rustic cabin up in Michigan’s upper peninsula. I loved it! The cabin didn’t have much in it–other than furniture, a supply of mosquitoes, and a selection of books. One picture book it had was an old version of The Little Old…
Tomorrow, October 3, is Look at the Leaves Day! Not that we need a day set aside to look at beautiful fall leaves, but it’s nice to have the reminder to focus on the beauty of nature. Two of my favorite leaf viewing areas? The upper peninsula of Michigan (I’m a Michigan girl so this…
Do you know the apple man? He was born John Chapman on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts. Of course most of us know Chapman as Johnny Appleseed, the American pioneer who planted large numbers of apple trees along the early frontier. Did Chapman really wear a tin pot as a hat, a coffee sack…
Let’s face it–lots of us have been feeling fall-ish for a while now. I’m actually eating a pumpkin spice muffin as I’m typing this. And speaking of pumpkin spice, click here for an indication that we’ve gone way too far with the obsession with this particular flavor! But I digress–fall is here! So here is…
Do you know what I did last weekend? I…
When I discovered that this Saturday, September 9, is Teddy Bear Day, well my brain was overtaken with teddy bear thoughts. The idea that the Teddy Bear was named after President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt has always warmed my heart. (For a quick review of how this came to be, click here.) I’m also a fan…
It’s Skyscraper Day–a day to celebrate those amazing structures that give large cities their well-known skylines. So, what is a skyscraper? Technically, it’s a structure that is over 40 stories. And why is September 3 National Skyscraper Day? Because it’s the birthday of Louis H. Sullivan–an accomplished architect who is known as “the father of…
Labor Day is this upcoming Monday – and we all know it as a wonderful day full of parades and barbecues. It’s also widely considered to be the end of summer and the beginning of the school season. I’m embarrassed to say that I don’t actually know a lot about the history of Labor Day–so…
One of the benefits of our online library of ideas is the sheer number of patterns we have that will make your life easier. Thank goodness you don’t have to flip through a book to find a pattern or do an Internet image search. (When I do that I always end up with a bunch…