Marooned in wartime, you can't teach your students English 24 hours per day. You can't even be the teacher for that long. Oh my!
Takedown - 2 points. Escape - 1 point. Reversal - 2 points. Near Fall - 2 or 3 points. Pin - 10,0000 points for an aunt
Somebody's got to to sign the form.
Sequel to Fishing for the Pocket Trout. Sara's not that old, but old enough to get her way.
This replaces my older "Seven Seas". A day at the theme park, a little TV from PBS.
"Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga choo-choo?"
"No ma'am. It's the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe El Capitan."
All aboard!
If you've only worn Indian ones, you'll notice the difference.
A schoolboy. An Auntie needing hooking. Growing up in India.
We Oregonians know how waves sculpt the sand.nbsp; But here in Newport, anyway, sometimes we sculpt the sand ourselves.
"Ouija, Oh Ouija. How much can we make out?"
If your girlfirend asks her magic board such a question, what boy wouldn't try to influence the game's answer?
"Them fuckers in the Services get all the credit for winnin' the goddamn war. But who got their asses shot out of the water to get them their shit, for chrissake? Us fuckers in the Merchant Marine. Goddamn sub-bait." - Cookie Rorke
"If you don't like romance, Cookie says go fuck yourself." - Holly Rennick, Merchant Marine Cadet
It's hard to explain when you don't speak her language, but then it would be hard for a guy like Cookie to explain even if he did.
Your vessel's in distress! To whom do you send an SOS?
A soldier driving his tank? A sailor steering his battleship? A pilot flying his jet plane?
Heavens no! You call a Coastguardsman.
A narrow peep into their afternoon, as cousins peep into the next room. Translated from Yiddish.
Rent a condo in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California. Check out the shops. Eat seafood. Golf, if you must. Snorkel. Buy yourself a fun swimsuit. Take your kids. Watch the sunsets. Take beach blankets.
"Hey kids! A picture story! Gather in, especially you boys. Jason, come sit on my lap. Ha! Ha! Fooled you. The pictures are from museums. A story about learning to look. Cupid and Venus, the mF classic, a relationship needing more than my words to fully appreciate.
”Jason, maybe you can see the pictures better if I hold them down here. Don't worry if anything happens; the other children aren't paying any attention."
And (central to it all, though not as portrayed in today's pornography) rape.
A Dixie tale of slavery, sex and family. As Cassie puts it, "We's all maybe related."
Sunday afternoon at the oxbow. Just you and Aunt Olivia. There are many things in books and she's a librarian.
Ladies, are you suffering from anxiety, confusion, depression, edema, fainting, forgetfulness, giddiness, headaches, hyperemia, insomnia, irritability, lassitude, loss of appetite, muscle spasms, nervousness, palpitations of the heart, heaviness in the abdomen, paralytic states, shortness of breath, stomach upsets, tendency to cause trouble for others, ticklishness, weepiness, writing cramps, indifference to marital duty, lustful yearnings or excessive vaginal lubrication?
If so, you may be suffering from hysteria. Moreover, you may need an hysterical paroxysm.
Say, doc. Mind helping me out of this horrid corset? Where's the examination TABLE?
"Yes, dear, and one day soon I must tell you the purpose which menstruation has in Nature's creative plan -- but not today." - Callender, Mary Pauline (1938) "Marjorie May's 12th Birthday"
Teacher on the sand. Cindi providing cover.
Sibling salvage from original "Writer's Notebook"
If your sister also uses the computer, never leave the folder open where you download adult pictures. Unless, of course, she may be interested.
Your sixth-grade teacher can teach you about geology. She can teach you about your body. A few years later, she can teach you about hers. Education is a two-way process.
Interested in the history of welding?
If not, how about? "Ooooh! Oooooooh!" as the leading man drove his living steel shaft deeper and deeper within me. "Oui, mon amour! Ohhh!"
Or, "How to flux his hot-rolled cylinder and get riveted."
Any of you catch the Lilith Fair concert tour and loved organizer Sarah McLachlan's audacity? "It doesn't exclude men, it simply celebrates women." You got topless, too, right? Well this story's about that Lilith.
You can wear one, drink one or play one. But with your friend's brother? Your friend with her brother?
Who didn't cop a feel when playing this one from Milton Bradley?
Three stories about New York City: "Skyline Silhouette" about waiting it out with your brother; "Central Park Conception Association" about elocution for civic concerns; and "Village YW" about moving ahead with your friend.
A three-part tale of survival in the Nuclear War of 1961. Survival means meeting each other's needs. If the post-cataclysmic world isn't too apocalyptic, leave it to the Kaffee Klatsches to sort out.
To everything there is a season. Come be one of us at Wesleyan.
This one's for adolescent boys. They're people, too. They just have smaller brains.
Cantharis Vesicatoria, la mosca española, Spanish fly. Latin, Spanish and English. Below the noggin, though, we speak the same.
A morality tale.
A Who-Done-It? where the two culprits volunteer that they did it. But it doesn't look like an accident to Sheila Wright, Private Eye!
Widen the field, and what happens to the scoring?
Immigration not counted, Scandinavian population growth is lagging. Why?
She writes. She plays an instrument. She sings. She dances. (If you really must know, her bedtime talents are more than adequate as well.) So what's left? Finding a reason.
If remembering your hand on an older boy's arm (even if he was just your best friend's brother) still gives you the flutters, Hi there, sister!.
In summer camp it's not automatic.
Q: How are Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Canada, Mexico and the European Union alike?
A: Ask a close cousin.
Family traditions. Family ties. Family values.
Sibling affection in a Howdy Doody world.
Hidden Hawaii.
Replacement of original "Readers Theater"
A drama for spoken voices. Cindi directs. Aren't the readers reading well? You'd almost think performance.
A teacher's story about learning.
After school education. A bit ambitious, my first effort. Meet Cindi.
Poetry and educational salvage from original "Writer's Notebook"
You play Risk? The board game, I mean. OK, then, how 'bout the other kind? Reading group discussion questions included.
Some attire shouldn't go out of style.
A multidisciplinary essay. Hi there, Cindi!
Why chocolate and hockey are supposedly better than sex. Cindi's insights.
"History is more or less bunk." - Henry Ford.
"Well this history isn't." - Holly Rennick.
"Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana.
"But could we give this one another run-through?" - Cindi Barton.
Getting along with your brother. Cindi's advice.