The Impatient Button

I’m pretty sure that somewhere on this computer keyboard there must be a key for those of us who can’t stand having to “hurry up and wait” while something downloads. But if there isn’t one there already, perhaps I can invent it. Pressing the button won’t do anything...

It’s a blurse!

Each of us is uniquely gifted. Some lean toward the artistic right brain, and others lean toward the analytic left brain, but we were all born with special talents and skills just waiting to be utilized to the fullest. I have always felt it was our personal...

The moon is made of…

A friend of mine is working on a delightful children’s picture book series with the emphasis on science education. In the first book, “Grammy” explains all about the moon, with terms and examples a young child can easily grasp. Fortunately for me, she’s writing in...

Ticket takers and cookie pushers

Tonight is Opening Night for the Peninsula Players’ production of “The Fantasticks.” In case you’ve been living too long with your head buried deeply in our beautiful beach sand, “The Fantasticks” original off-Broadway production ran a total of 42 years and 17,162...

The need to know

“A teacher doesn’t need to know everything,” I often told my students. “A teacher just needs to know where to look it up.” The same holds true today, but today it’s a whole lot easier to access a limitless supply of information with just a few keystrokes. And while...