I’d like to trying sailing someday. When I was a teenager a few songs about sailing came on the radio and they sang about it as if it was a great way to get away. It was peaceful and refreshing.
Spinach Versus Doritos!
My daughter Ginny and I are taking a spinach challenge. According to stats two thirds of Americans are obese! This is probably true because we eat out alot and we snack alot while watching TV.
Our goal: Eat 1 cup of raw spinach for a TV snack (about 5 times a week).
Sebastian
I substitute taught in a middle school English class last Friday. The fifth hour class was considered an extra unruly group. So I started the class by speaking with a loud firm (no smile) voice. I remembered what my husband said. He told me to think of the entire class as a group filled with the ornriest kids I would ever meet and their intentions were to take advantage of me.
Favorite Quotes
I love quotes and the internet gives us access to the very best. Over the past few years I’ve been figuring out my favorites.
Here’s a list of the more prominent names:
Martin Luther
Theodore Roosevelt
Noah Webster
Mother Teresa
C.S. Lewis
Seneca
Winston Churchill
Ben Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
Anyway
God is great
But sometimes life ain’t good
And when I pray
It doesn’t always turn out like I think it should
But I do it anyway . . .
I heard those words in a debut video on CMT this past Saturday. It was the first time I had heard a new song by Martina McBride. When she sings, she sings with passion. She can pour out her soul through her excellent voice while singing at the top of her lungs. My husband and I have a CD in which she sings How Great Thou Art.
Martina debuted the song at the CMA Awards ceremony in 2006. I found the video and I have watched it more than once to study her techniques as she gives the song her very best while we hear it for the first time.
Who’s On First
Here’s the famous classic dialogue between comedian duo Abbott and Costello:
21 Suggestions For Success
I substitute taught in a fourth grade class at a private Catholic school in Tulsa, Oklahoma today. When I sub I always study and learn from the details of the room. I try to gather details of what the teacher is like.
Beatles and Love Me Do
Did you know Paul McCartney skipped school when he was 16 years old and wrote the song, Love Me Do.”? This was the Beatles first big hit. When the song was released in America Ringo Starr was not the drummer on the record, another guy named Andy White played instead. Ringo played in the English version. Here’s an old black and white clip of them singing it.
Dottie and Elvis
I love it when I hear a great story. Today as I sat next to Dottie she told me one.
Dottie and her parents lived in California in the late 1960’s. They decided to go on a trip to Pennsylvania to visit family. On the way, her parents wanted to stop in Las Vegas.
Turn, Turn, Turn by The Byrds
To everything . . . turn, turn, turn. . . words to a popular song sung by The Byrds in the ’60’s. The words were derived from the poetic book of Ecclesiasties in the Bible (3:1). King Solomon, the son of King David of Israel wrote the original.
I had the privilege of finding this great song in an old clip from 1966. I guess you could say the video is of some byrds sitting on horses (ha.)
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