Category Archives: change

A Failed Experiment: A New Plan

Posted on February 22, 2009 by randomyriad

I started out this week intent on focusing on the light and got lost in a dense gray fog of fatigue and indifference ending in a black funk. I have no idea how things happen this way. This all ended … Continue reading →

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Bringing a Little Wonder Back to my Work

Posted on February 15, 2009 by randomyriad

I have worked in programs that are supportive of the kind of child led learning that I believe in, but often administrators pay lip service to it while piling on pre-written curricula and norm based goals which in my opinion … Continue reading →

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Nailed to the Floor of My Life

Posted on February 13, 2009 by randomyriad

It seems like lately I have no ability to rise above the busy noise of day to day life and enjoy my life as thinking, dreaming, living being. I am trapped in other people’s versions of the world, and frankly, … Continue reading →

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Winter Thoughts Early

Posted on December 11, 2008 by randomyriad

I My wife and I are trying to work out the logistics of having just one car. It wearies me to think of extra accommodations to do a job that already consumes more than its fair share of my life. … Continue reading →

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A Dream Delayed

Posted on November 13, 2008 by randomyriad

Here is a dream I had a couple weeks ago as I was preparing to start NaNoWriMo. I have no idea what it means I just had a few minutes to pull it out of some scribbled notes in my … Continue reading →

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