Sally O’Brien
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Sally O’Brien
@sallyohbrien.bsky.social
Perpetually awaiting a rebirth of wonder.

οὐ μὲν γάρ τοι ἔτ’ ἄλλος ἐλεύσεται ἐνθάδ’ ᾿Οδυσσεύς.

Proud #PHLed neighborhood school teacher and parent.

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@marcusluther.bsky.social I SUCK at bulletin boards and the last two years I have fully intended to do this and it just…stayed blank thru June. but this is gonna be the year! finally got it populated! will let you know how the youth respond!
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
me at 20: ugh I can’t imagine spending my life writing criticism about Homer that nobody outside the academy will read, what else can I do w/ my classics degree

me at 40: yesss it’s my leisure time, can’t wait for my weekly Iliad zoom and then gonna crack open this new book of Homer criticism
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
BARS from @mattrkay.bsky.social, an educator I respect a great deal.
October 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
@pftlocal3.bsky.social a beautiful day to support the DC33 strikers on the picket line! the workers where I was at had a lot of appreciation for our union—one that I talked to was a former PFT para.
July 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
this banya poem, by @rudemechanical7.bsky.social, slaps
May 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
the entire federal government:
February 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
For…reasons, I’ve been thinking about the snowstorm last January when the Archdiocese schools and a bunch of surrounding districts were closed, and Philly public schools were open, incomprehensibly, on a regular schedule. Anyway I hope I don’t have to bring this meme out of retirement #phled
January 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I didn’t think that feeling of infinite wealth you get when you walk into the public library could get better BUT IT CAN: when you walk into the library to pick up the batch of cards for your students, & the librarian says “some of these kids had old fines…we, uh, took the liberty of waiving em.”
November 27, 2024 at 2:48 AM
This was really alarming until I clicked thru and saw this.
November 17, 2024 at 7:29 PM
I HAVE ARRIVED. I am a PRESTIGIOUS POET now. NOTIFY THE RUTH LILLY FOLKS
November 14, 2024 at 5:16 AM
Honorable mention goes to this sign outside the canteen. “Service You Deserve” —only between the hours of 7 am and 3 pm.
April 12, 2024 at 2:49 AM