Beneath the Wraps

 Here is a less than flattering poem I had written about a substitute teacher that I had only heard about but had never encountered until my junior year.  She reminded me of a school marm from the turn of the century - and I don't mean this century.  Subs have it hard because there is always at least one student who acts up and ruins it for the rest of the class.   Today's feature: The Bear If you painted her last name You ’ d have a picture of a “ Bear ” Or the ancient braud herself The decrepit lady with blue hair      We see the old grouch Come back year after year Why, this lady is so old She went to school with Shakespeare   She was born to be a teacher She knew that from the start And after years of teaching She bought a genuine handcart .      She taught [near] little reservoirs And on the Mississippi plain One of her students was Samuel  Clemens Know to us a Mark Twain.   When she came to Jordon Di...

                  I often wonder if Trump didn ’ t pay off the Chinese (or make another hollow promise to pay) to create a virus that would infect the entire planet (villain proof of course) knowing that it would eventually make its way to the U.S. before elections took place.  Trump would pronounce himself to continue as president and not hold an election until after the virus had disappeared.  What a JERK!  The absolute worst president in American history.  Should NOT be worthy of the title president.  Should be the part of history that gets erased.  Remove his name from the title.  He ’ s a villain!  Presidents should not be villains!         Donald Trump and Joe Biden are three and a half years apart.   Three years!   Not three decades.   Pharisees act like they ’ re decades apart and Trump has a much younger and fresher mind.   He is quite ju...

          In these two posts ( here and here ) I mentioned how much Jenna loves learning about her family members. Until we had played Chatter Matters, she hadn't known that Roland used to play the trombone - or anything about his childhood really.   Usually it's just her and I, but she did manage to rope Roland into playing with us between conference.   After she won the game, we continued to go through the "family room" and "my room" cards so that Jenna could know Roland a little better. It reminded me of when my sibs and I would force the Ungame questions upon my dad.           My parents actually did three listed on the card - hiking was more of a seasonal activity   or annual thing - and it was usually a part of either a daytip or full vacation so the specific places we hiked were Yellowstone National Park or Timpanogos Cave in American Fork, Utah.  ...

(this post is about presidents past and NOT the current election)                   Jenna and a classmate are going to give an assigned PowerPoint this week.   I haven't seen any of it as it was a project they worked on it at school.   The first PowerPoint that I remember Jenna doing for her current school was a presentation on one of our former presidents.         Before she had been assigned this task, I had told her that if ever she was to do a report on an American President, to pick either William Henry Harrison or Gerald Ford as William Henry Harrison was Pres. for only one month and Gerald Ford is the only President that hadn't been voted to be president (or vice-president) by the public.   I just like interesting facts that set apart from others.   But I suppose they all have something interesting about them. ...