Tag: people
member name: Kevin E.
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December 16, 2009 05:49 PM EST --
It all began when a train stopped Santa during a Christmas parade. It was that train that gave Tip Top Tommy the idea in the first place. As I think about it the whole thing began months earlier. To . . .
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July 23, 2008 10:52 PM EDT --
I have learning disabilities . I rarely make that statement public. I have never in my life made a statement so public about my learning disabilities but I believe that even after so many years . . .
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December 06, 2009 10:13 PM EST --
You shouldn’t have.
Just say “thank you.”
It’s too big.
Just say “thank you.”
It’s too much.
Just say “thank . . .
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June 13, 2007 10:15 PM EDT --
I always figured that if I was ever to write a "How To Book" it really would be on how not to do things. I have had nearly 50 years of field research in that area. I have accumulated a great . . .
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September 23, 2007 04:19 PM EDT --
I am smack dab in the middle of Middle Age. I feel obligated to pass on the following truisms. By the way feel free to test them out. The following lessons were proven by me. If you should feel the need . . .
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April 20, 2008 07:44 PM EDT --
Back before cell phones, early in the 1980s, I was an insurance salesman/financial planner. For a while I sold Funeral Insurance. This was a small policy insurance that was to just cover the cost . . .
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June 27, 2007 11:44 PM EDT --
I live near Andersonville Georgia. Andersonville is full of echos, in the prison and in the cemetery you can hear echos. The echos of 45,000 prisoners who were at Andersonville from February 1864 . . .
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September 11, 2007 11:51 PM EDT --
I am a man who knows his limits. I am proud of my accomplishments and constantly strive to go the extra mile, but at age 49 I know what I cannot do. At the risk of offending animal lovers everywhere, . . .
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May 12, 2008 05:10 PM EDT --
I was a Funeral Insurance Salesman and just when I had seen it all I was proven wrong. It was another of those endlessly boring beautiful sunny days in Central California. I had one of my rare no sales . . .
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August 17, 2008 06:39 PM EDT --
Friday was my first discouraging day of my school year. On the tenth day of our new school year a new student came to my class. He is 15. He suffered traumatic brain injury when he was a baby. . . .
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August 04, 2007 11:01 PM EDT --
I am a Special Educator who has taught for 11 years. I teach a life skills program at a High School. I have the privilege to teach with two awesome and dedicated para-professionals. School has begun . . .
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July 12, 2008 04:02 PM EDT --
There is an argument that if there were no illegal immigrants our food cost would be really high. Is it possible that there are hidden costs in that lettuce that we now buy, that lettuce already costs . . .
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August 09, 2008 05:51 PM EDT --
Open house for incoming ninth graders is always fun. Parents are more confused than the new freshman. Often the unexpected is said by those who are quite thankful that they are not the ones going through . . .
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August 11, 2008 10:24 PM EDT --
My heart has been heavy today because when I arrived at school Thursday I learned that only an hour earlier a former student who graduated from our high school a short two years ago, was stabbed . . .
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August 18, 2008 11:29 PM EDT --
I wrote an article where I questioned if a student who came to my school was ready for school. This was a student who I was absolutely certain did not belong in school. I lost sleep over him and really . . .
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August 30, 2008 11:39 PM EDT --
I am being called the miracle man at my school these days. This is a result of some changes in a student I am working with. This is a student I wasn't even sure belonged in public school when I first . . .
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September 13, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
We had just moved to Georgia 4 years ago and we had really begun to settle in. Four days earlier our family had cheered the Atlanta Braves on to victory. My youngest son had just started . . .
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October 11, 2008 10:43 PM EDT --
Grandma came to visit my classroom two weeks ago. It was to be her last visit to my class. Her grandson was busy taking a puzzle apart when she came in. We both marveled at what a difference . . .
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January 10, 2009 10:59 AM EST --
Magical Moments Chapter 4
People Have More Than Five Senses
Years ago when I lived in the Northwest, my family and I had the privilege of being part of a support group for . . .
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January 12, 2009 07:42 PM EST --
To My Friends At Gather:
I just finished my fiftieth post and I want to celebrate. The best way for me to celebrate is for me to post a list of my six favorite posts. Out of my fifty posts the following . . .
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